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...Department?s refusal to provide a full accounting of everyone who have been detained and why." Criticism has seeped in from within the intelligence community as well; the Washington Post interviewed several former FBI officials who revealed the government is reverting back to maneuvers rejected in the 1970s as useless against terrorism - and a threat to civil liberties...
...capital, in 1994, Strada's team worked without running water, electricity or even a roof. "It helped when we had a full moon," recalls Strada. The conditions will only get worse in Afghanistan, where he would rather not be. "Emergency's ultimate goal," he says, "is to be completely useless." Sadly, that's not likely anytime soon...
...than a condensed work. The negative results of this are threefold: overwhelming repetition of the same basic facts; an even more substantial amount of completely irrelevant material; and absence of the actual essay or letters Weinberg is responding to, which often renders the author’s points utterly useless for lack of context. In fact, for those interested in the meat of author’s arguments, I advise skipping directly to Chapter 12: “Sokal’s Hoax,” unless one wants to read a circuitous recap of the history of physics...
...Belgian officials say the U.S. did not properly request the Trabelsi dossier until Sept. 27. It took weeks after that, they say, to scan the documents, which were "the thickness of seven phone books," onto CDs and finally hand them over, on Oct. 12. Initially, though, the discs were useless; the Belgians had password-protected them and neglected to send along the code. Investigators in Washington were so frustrated with the stinginess from Belgium that they called the New York Times and gave the paper a blistering story that ran last Wednesday. Since then Belgium has offered official expressions...
...Luke Smith (Editor’s Notebook, Oct. 23) to clarify the Crimson Key Society’s function and operations with respect to its tours of the Harvard campus. Prospective students do not receive, as Smith charges, a “thoroughly useless Harvard history lesson.” They enjoy a comprehensive and candid discussion of academic, residential, extracurricular and social life at the College. The sprinkling of historical anecdotes serves to enrich and enliven an essentially informational tour. Crimson Key guides do not carry a script, but we do cover all of the topics Smith claims were...