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Just weeks earlier, however, the appointment was far from certain. As late as January, several members of the search committee were unsure whether Faust, the founding dean of the the University’s smallest academic unit, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, was capable of leading an institution of Harvard’s size, according to three individuals close to the search process...
...that had struggled so mightily early on—a team that broke into passing lanes, ran smooth fast breaks, and was communicative on defense. But most importantly, they saw a team—a group of talented individuals, certainly, but more effective as a unit that knew the strengths and weaknesses of all its parts.“She just kept telling us to keep fighting, and that we were losing games for specific reasons, not because we just couldn’t win,” junior guard Lindsay Hallion said...
...vulnerable is the Web? Extremely. Just about anyone with a modicum of determination can successfully mount an attack. The "tools and instructions are readily available at a low cost," says Oliver Friedrichs, a director at the security response unit of Symantec, a U.S. software firm. Internet chat rooms and bulletin boards can furnish would-be saboteurs with instructions on launching their own strike. And defending against these attacks is tricky. Large corporations can invest in clever hardware that detects odd patterns of requests for its websites and routes away the suspicious ones. Smaller firms, not used to handling huge volumes...
...city was plagued by gang violence, simmering racial tensions and a sordid history of police misconduct. The department was, and still is, under federal supervision to mind its civil rights Ps and Qs as part of a 2001 consent decree following the scandal involving an LAPD anti-gang unit in the Rampart division, whose cops committed acts of corruption and brutality...
...grade has never really had before." In al Qaim, he says Marines are now tasked with such community outreach at the rank-and-file level and with every contact with Iraqi civilians. Says Vistek: "The responsibility went from, 'oh, that's on the [lieutenant]' to, 'Holy s---, my [unit's] responsible for three patrols a day? Wow.'" That new function combined with the old but still necessary task of fighting insurgents can be overwhelming. Gove, like other Marine commanders in al Qaim, is mindful that he risks pushing his men past their limits as he attempts to blanket the area...