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...attacks, the CIA was eager to whisk captured terrorists off to secret locations around the world where its operatives could interrogate them out of the reach of the U.S. legal system and human-rights organizations. But four years later, with about three dozen of al-Qaeda's most hard-core agents in CIA custody, America's new spy chief seems less enthusiastic about the leeway his operatives have had. At a secret briefing for U.S. Senators on Oct. 26, a senior U.S. intelligence official tells TIME, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte was pointedly neutral on Vice President Dick Cheney...
...central; otherwise, the coherent vision that the committee has long labored to craft will be lost amidst the chaotic competition of individual faculty interests.The committee’s recommendations strike a difficult but effective balance between stressing subject matter over the “methods” of the Core Curriculum while simultaneously emphasizing flexibility in course selection above all else. A common refrain from critics of the Core has been that Harvard students can fulfill distribution requirements by taking very specific classes (a class on the Cuban Revolution 1956-1971, for instance, satisfies a Historical Studies B requirement...
...graduation of last season’s stellar senior class likely will mean big minutes and bigger numbers from the 2005-2006 juniors, an outfit that Donato has called the team’s core...
Mansfield stood his ground, properly calling those examples marginal and ultimately irrelevant to his core argument. But many have not been so steadfast with reality. When the proposition of changing Tuft’s “heteronormative” housing confronted the university’s president, he found it hard to respond in the logical way—that heteropresumption is the way of a world where the huge majority are straight—and instead invented a nonsensical excuse underpinned by a worry that sexually transmitted diseases would increase if the sexes were mixed...
...watching TV on these things. You'll be able to access your TiVo and have your own personal online capability. I believe strongly there will be more Google searches done on devices like this than any other kind of computing device. This will be the [core] computer for a lot of people around the world. But maybe we haven't done a good enough job of communicating about what our products can do now. [Colligan picks up a Treo 650.] I have a 2-GB expansion card here. I can store approximately 10 movies on this. I can also download...