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Wherever he is, Mohammed is a tremendous catch. The documents, files and cell phones taken from the house in Rawalpindi were flown to the U.S. and are being pored over at the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center in Virginia. The items seized have already yielded the names of at least a dozen men in the U.S who were known to be al-Qaeda associates and were under surveillance; other names are new to the authorities and are being checked out. So far, FBI officials say, there have been no electrifying breakthroughs, identifying previously unknown cells. "There aren...
Batten’s journalism career began at age 16, when he worked at a daily newspaper owned by his uncle. After serving in World War II, Batten did his undergraduate work at the University of Virginia before attending...
...While Department of Justice reports show kidnappings are on the decline, you'd never know it from the ongoing media frenzy. Recent abductions have shocked neighborhoods in Virginia, Texas and California - and dominated headlines for days at a time. One phrase keeps coming up: "Amber Alert." A signal designed to tap into Americans' sense of community, the program provides cops, motorists and the public at large with information about specific abductions - and asks for their help in finding missing children. For the past two months we've heard a lot about Amber Alert, but how, exactly, does the system function...
Sandel framed the debate about choosing the gender of one’s children in terms of technology available through the Virginia-based corporation Microsort...
...take a draft to engage a university more directly with the problems of war; it takes the audacity to make bigger claims about the purpose of a liberal arts education. As we read British war poetry to learn about life in World War I trenches, or the novels of Virginia Woolf to speak blithely about the sense of disconnect and restlessness of the era that preceded World War II, in fifty years, what will this generation of war poems and how they were read tell us about...