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...Learned at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. According to the report, computers needed to relay time-critical information from Iraqi agents to U.S. troops were not connected, so intelligence the spies gleaned didn't generate follow-up raids by G.I.s. Most of the military-intelligence officials were junior officers with no formal training, the paper complained. What's more, the interpreters they relied on were "middle-age convenience-store workers and cab drivers" whose Arabic was only good enough "to tell the difference between a burro and a burrito...
Many professors say that along with the HFA’s founding, the 1970s saw a flourishing of film studies both at Harvard and at many of its peer institutions, where formal degree-granting programs were then established...
Even those who agree on the wisdom of a formal program are conflicted about the exact direction such a program should take...
...time there were concerns about the WRC being so new, it didn’t have any bylaws, but I think a lot of those problems were resolved in a positive way,” Taylor said. “There was never a formal response [to the memo], but it was talked about and looked at carefully...There was never any hostility towards the idea, or any kind of rejection...
...public. From admittedly cool beginnings among Aussie surfers in the 1970s for warming up after hanging ten, the Ugg became shorthand in Antipodean fashion circles as synonymous with only the most slothful and sloppy of lazy layabouts. Banned from public places—either through cold stares or more formal door policies—the Ugg was the ultimate in fashion faux pas. That was, at least, until unlikely style icon Pamela Anderson was spotted sporting a pair of the yeti-esque boots on the streets of LA. Suddenly the trend went ballistic trans-pacific. Fashion victims on the west...