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Neugeboren returned on Nov. 25 to teach the course’s third unit on game theory, his area of specialty. Though he could not be reached for comment, he previously told The Crimson that he was unprepared to teach the material in a large-lecture format and would use his time off to create PowerPoint presentations for the remainder of the course...
Probably not. To the degree that there were any warnings, they were lost in the fragmented world of the agencies that collect and analyze intelligence--none of which will be under the new department's jurisdiction. The Homeland Security Department will create an in-house analysis unit, but its output will be only as good as the information it gets from the CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency. Those agencies could stand to improve their own operations. The New York Times reported last week that the FBI's second-in-command, Bruce Gebhardt, recently fired off a memo complaining...
...toughest moments of her career, and Dee Mellor was about to relive it one recent afternoon, this time in front of an audience--a group of rising stars at General Electric. Mellor, 45, runs the global supply-chain operations for GE's huge Medical Systems unit, and last year she had to decide where to move the manufacturing of a crucial component for the C.T. scanners used in hospitals. In India, she explained, GE had a proven team and facility and could reap an immediate return. China would require more investment, but it offered access to a pool...
...launchers it kept after the Gulf War. "You sniff around in the western desert," says a U.S. official, "and try to get an idea about those hardened concrete bunkers that Saddam has created to put his Scuds in." In the past few years, members of an Israeli special-forces unit called Shaldag, Hebrew for "Kingfisher," have taken part in the Scud hunt. There are only a few dozen Shaldag fighters, trained to stay in the field for weeks at a time. Sources say that should a war start, Israel will ask the U.S. to allow it to contribute...
After his absence from the lineup Friday night, sophomore winger Andrew Lederman shifted to the second line against RPI and contributed an assist while serving on the second power-play unit...