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...continue to become more and more important," he says. "Here at Harvard, we can be sure that the University is doing its best to protect us from further attacks by hackers, even if we can't be privy to all the details. Or as Steen says, "Security is a topic that it is best to keep secure...
DAVID GELERNTER, a computer science professor at Yale, was asked to write about Bill Gates. One nerd discussing another? Hardly. Those familiar with Professor Gelernter know him as a wide-ranging (one book topic: the 1939 World's Fair) and engaging writer, who was also a target of the Unabomber's. Those unfamiliar with him will be surprised by his provocative story on the world's best-known businessman...
Money can be such a distasteful topic that Russia's Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov avoided asking for any when he met with Michel Camdessus. The IMF head left Moscow Wednesday making positive noises about Primakov's "pragmatism" and promised to return in January, but he signed no checks. Although Russia is desperate to get the IMF to release a $4 billion loan that has been withheld out of concern over Moscow's economic intentions, Primakov used the meeting as a fence-mending exercise. "The last meeting between the two sides was disastrous because Russian officials started shouting that they wouldn...
Alex Nguyen's piece "Blame Harvard for Cold Hearts" (Opinion, Nov. 23) certainly touched on a topic of concern for both writers of this letter. Nguyen writes eloquently about societal needs and there is little reason to disagree with his goals. But we certainly are not in agreement with the headline or with some of the reasoning behind...
...tissue. So why can't the U.S. military perform a total Saddamectomy? The idea is bubbling anew in Congress and among Bush Administration advisers who passed up the chance to remove the Iraqi dictator in 1991, when U.S. troops were in his neighborhood. But it's not a serious topic in the Pentagon tank, the top-secret meeting room in which the Joint Chiefs of Staff plot strategy. In fact, Marine General Anthony Zinni, who as chief of the U.S. Central Command would oversee any U.S.-led attack on Iraq, thinks it's a dubious scheme. "Saddam contained," he says...