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...This is just the tip of the iceberg at Harvard—it’s not just the security guards,” he said. “The guards are at the cutting edge of what Harvard is trying to do to all its workers...
Special forces were usually ahead of the tip of the spear: as U.S. troops pushed toward Baghdad, secret combat teams zipped into Iraq aboard specially outfitted MC-130 Combat Talon planes that used highways as landing strips, surprising the enemy at its rear. On the road to Tikrit, they fingered Iraqi vehicles fleeing the capital for destruction by M1 tanks. And inside the capital, the elite Delta Force slipped into Baghdad's back alleys and into its sewers to eavesdrop on communications, cut fiber-optic cables, target regime leaders and build networks of informants...
...against the pair because the government would have to prove that Stewart knew the significance of Waksal's sale when she sold the stock. "It's a tricky case," says Greg Markel, a securities-law specialist at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft in New York City. A broker passing along a tip from one client to another "is not that unusual," says John Teakell, a former SEC litigator in Dallas. (In Bacanovic's case, says a defense attorney, "it probably could have been a lot subtler...
Spoofed or otherwise, the spam that makes it to your In box is just the tip of the iceberg. At the four major e-mail providers--MSN (including Hotmail), Yahoo, EarthLink and AOL (which, like this magazine, is owned by AOL Time Warner)--between 40% and 70% of all incoming mail is killed upon arrival at their mail servers. But this has spawned a kind of spam arms race: the more mail is blocked, the more spammers send, in hopes that some will get through. As a result, the performance of the mail servers is starting to suffer. Two months...
...likely to resist her nomination nonetheless, feeling she is tainted by Bush's policies. She held important posts in the Reagan and first-Bush EPAs. During the Clinton years, she managed the government affairs office for Monsanto, the chemical and biotechnology company. Fisher's candidacy is a hat-tip to her work in the agency and the civil servants below her. But it may only be that. One White House source suggests that Skinner and Kempthorne are more likely nominees. And other names may well emerge as the White House tries to fill one of its thorniest posts...