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And yet intelligence officials acknowledge privately that Sept. 11 laid bare many of the agency's most crippling weaknesses. Six months later, the problems remain--buried under billions of dollars in post-9/11 funding and stubbornly resistant to change. Insiders agree that the CIA's failure to learn of...
A popular touch can be useful as Abdullah goes about tackling entrenched problems. During Fahd's 20-year reign, government spending soared, while oil revenues declined from $40 per bbl. in 1980 to about $20 today. Abdullah has set out to shake the kingdom of its dependence on oil, which...
Another thing—Canada’s always bragging about its hockey skills. So the Canadians spanked the U.S. in the Olympic championships. That proves nothing, save for the fact that they are more adept at hitting a piece of vulcanized black rubber while skating around in circles on...
Bolker: There are a few answers. Some people have really un-useful ideas about how to write. They tie themselves in knots that way, and once you do that it’s hard to get out. I’ve had students whose advisers have died, or advisers who...
There is no simple answer to this question. There can be no denying, on the one hand, that the progress of contemporary scientists in understanding the brain continually and inexorably pushes dualistic theories of mind and body further towards implausibility. At the same time, though, neurologists, psychologists, philosophers, and others...