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...front lines of the war, you learn about America's strategy by staring at the smoke. Above the peaks and ridges of northern Afghanistan last week, the plumes billowed thick and black in long, ragged lines-calling cards of the B-52 bombers that each dropped 25,000 lbs. of ordnance on Taliban positions. For Northern Alliance fighters scanning the sky from the Taloqan front in the far north to Jabal Saraj, near Kabul, those massive clouds of smoke, dust and debris could mean only one thing: the long-awaited American command to take the fight to the Taliban...
...weighs in at 230 lbs. and if you were to guess he’s a football player, you’d be right. In fact, you may know from reading the sports pages that Laborsky is one of the best players on the team and is a huge reason why Harvard football is enjoying one of the best seasons in its 128-year history...
Then again, at 6’4 and 230 lbs., not too many people would insult Laborsky to his face. For that matter, few would complain to Tim Coleman, the 6’8 senior center for the men’s basketball team. But even if the condescension and cynicism aren’t actively directed at Harvard’s athletes, the attitudes are nonetheless palpable...
...Soviet suitcase nukes (also known as atomic demolition munitions, or ADMs) had gone unaccounted for and presumably ended up on the Russian black market. The Russians have offered confusing and conflicting statements about the disposition of their ADMs, leading some to suspect the worst. The ADMs weigh from 60 lbs. to 100 lbs., according to Bruce Blair, a former U.S. Air Force officer and expert on Soviet nuclear weapons. They could be carried in a case 8 in. by 16 in. by 24 in. The fissile material inside the mini-nukes degrades over time, though, and it's unlikely that...
...will become dean of the London Business School in January. Tyson, 54, is moving on from her post as dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as the only woman to head a major U.S. business school. Her task at LBS will be to make the school competitive with the top U.S. M.B.A. programs...