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John Kapusta, a recent graduate of Harvard’s joint-degree program with the New England Conservatory, is currently studying voice and French classical vocal music on a Fulbright scholarship in Paris, according to the Gates Cambridge Scholarship Web site. Kapusta will focus on performance studies while at Cambridge...
Queen Nworisara-Quinn, who graduated with a master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School in 2006, has been living in Tunisia this past year while working for the African Development Bank. After Cambridge, she hopes to focus on improving entrepreneurship and investment opportunities in Africa...
While that may be true, Defense Secretary Robert Gates killed plans last year to buy a fleet of lasered 747s. However, Gates has continued R&D, and that gives missile-defense backers a flickering flame of hope. There's no doubt the companies involved - and their supporters in Congress - will...
Gates wasn't impressed by the scheme. "After more than a decade of research and development, we have yet to achieve a laser with enough power to knock down a missile ... more than 50 miles from the launchpad - thus requiring these huge planes to loiter deep in enemy airspace to...
Such blind faith, even in the face of the evidence that led Gates to kill the program, highlights the difficulty of developing smart missile defenses. The challenge is especially difficult when the program generates an almost religious fervor among its advocates, especially given its tie to Ronald Reagan. In 1983...