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...Dartmouth College. "And they have developed expertise with computer systems for secure communications and planning attacks. The next step is to put the two together." The likely targets would be a country's power or water supply, gas and oil production or storage facilities, telecommunications or banking networks and transport or emergency services. Attackers could try to disrupt these systems during a conventional assault or, even worse, attempt to trigger a disaster by destroying them outright. Most government and many commercial organizations insulate the sensitive parts of their computer systems from the Internet. But it is harder to protect computerized...
...Aznar reportedly pressured Commission President Romano Prodi to soften the reforms. Around the same time Steffen Smidt, the Danish chief of the Commission bureaucracy on fisheries and a strong supporter of the plans, was dismissed, prompting charges that he was forced out for opposing any changes. Then E.U. transport and energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio, a Spanish conservative with close ties to Aznar, entered the fray. In a letter leaked to the press the day Fischler introduced the proposed reforms, de Palacio described the plan as "provocative" and "brutal." For weeks Prodi had to fend off claims that his commissioners...
...other details about the time of the murder were vague and contradictory. "I don't have any recall of the commotion," said Rushton about police being at the murder scene after the body was found. Dowdle couldn't remember if he drove or used some other mode of transport to go to a distant club for dinner on the night of the murder. Dowdle also said he wasn't sure he went to Michael's home in Windham, New York, the day after Martha was killed. That runs contrary to testimony from Skakel live-in tutor Kenneth Littleton, who said...
...carry you to the simple elegance of Grover’s Corners or the resplendent majesty of Camelot. It can bring you to the magical land located “second star to the right, and straight on ‘till morning.” It can also transport you to a small town in Vermont called Judevine. That dirty community can offer no images of classic Americana, nor can it provide grand castles or fairy-filled foliage. Yet Judevine is every bit as beautiful as those other locales in the theatrical tradition...
These guardians of the past are not professional historians. Among the Minute Men ranks are dentists, doctors and professors who meet once a month to transport themselves to the colonial era, with meticulous attention to authenticity. While fans of the reenactments, American historians at Harvard don’t suit up themselves, though a number of history loving Harvard alums tote muskets in formation with the Lexington training band...