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...entire inspections exercise from 1991 to 1998 allowed Baghdad to perfect ways to thwart the hunters. "We taught them what we could find," says David Kay, a former nuclear inspector, "and they learned how to conceal a program that is going to be a lot smaller but a lot harder" to find now. One example, from the 1999 U.N. report: in 1991, a major in Iraq's Special Republican Guard, Izzadine al-Majid, was ordered to take critical components from Iraq's missile program and hide them at a villa. After nine months, the materials were moved by the Special...
...honor codes, however, schools must be smart and careful about which policies they emphasize. Honor codes that establish a community that is intolerant of all forms of cheating—from unpermitted collaboration to buying and selling papers—will be effective and will become valuable tools to thwart cheating; such policies should use peer pressure to make academic dishonesty shame-worthy. Honor codes that boast heavy-handed “one strike, you’re out” punishments, however, will be counterproductive to creating the necessary atmosphere to criticize and reform cheaters...
Fiorina's supporters think HP in the middle will be a hit show. The rationale for acquiring Compaq has not changed, they argue. By buying Compaq's vast product portfolio, R.-and-D. muscle, direct-sales channel and 34,000 tech-service pros, HP could thwart IBM and Dell. "Analysts are waiting for us to put points on the scoreboard," says Michael Winkler, Fiorina's executive vice president for operations. (Fiorina declined to be interviewed...
Even if Fiorina can thwart Dell's attack in hardware and services, that still leaves IBM gunning for her other flank in higher-end corporate computer systems and services. IBM retained its market share in servers through this year's second quarter, while Compaq's share has eroded slightly, enabling IBM to pull to a tie in terms of global revenues, according to IDC. IBM CEO Sam Palmisano recently said the company would invest $10 billion to enable clients to purchase computing power "on demand," signaling to HP and other rivals that Big Blue is planning a war of attrition...
...radical parties. After the strong showing in the Oct. 10 general elections, the religious parties will control Baluchistan and Northwest Frontier Provinces?hideouts for al-Qaeda and Taliban fugitives. These radical clerics may either put a stop to the FBI's investigations in these provinces outright, or at least thwart raids on al-Qaeda strongholds by refusing to let local police take part. By Tim McGirk/Islamabad...