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After decrying Malone's alleged "donut fund" of state money, Wilmington endorsed Cellucci on the basis of his connection to his predecessor, former Gov. William F. Weld...
...with only one contributor listed among the faculty ranks--Martin A. Linsky, a public policy lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government--Cellucci evidently has had difficulty raising funds on a campus that showed strong support for his predecessor William F. Weld...
Still, even with the widespread support of theRepublican party, political analysts like Linksyquestion whether Cellucci can duplicate thepolitical success of his predecessor, William F.Weld '66, who won support from all sides of thepolitical spectrum...
Still, the Taepo Dong-1 should help to refocus the thinking of policymakers in Washington. It is light-years ahead of its predecessor, the Nodong-1, a one-stage rocket with a range of up to 620 miles. Multiple-stage vehicles require expertise in guidance systems and other tricky technology. Thus last week's launch means the North is a step closer to building intercontinental ballistic missiles that could reach the mainland U.S., according to Richard Speier, a Carnegie Foundation consultant and former missile proliferation expert at the Pentagon...
...spots. It seems that in flight, the hulking 300-ton plane kicks up a lot of turbulence. Such swirling atmospheric eddies can entangle soldiers in their parachute lines, collapse their chutes or hurl airborne paratroopers dangerously into one another. The Globemaster suffers particularly in comparison with its predecessor. A fleet of older C-141's can fly over a drop zone and unload a brigade of 3,000 paratroopers in as little as 19 minutes, with each group of three C-141's separated by 8,000 feet. Not only does that allow for a fast drop, it also minimizes...