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...increasing the risk of military mistakes, impeding the hunt for al-Qaeda leaders and giving Omar, bin Laden and their henchmen time to slip away. "The U.S. is totally dependent on locals, who have their own agenda," says an expert in the region. A senior intelligence official disputes the scope of the problem, telling TIME that "this institution has never produced better human intelligence than it does today--but that doesn't mean that we don't need to do more...
Maureen Dezell’s Irish America: Coming into Clover is an unsentimental exploration of the cultural identity that the media often miss. The sweeping scope of her coverage ranges from a treatment of Irish-American enclaves outside of the Northeast, like Butte, Montana, to a penetrating look at the dynamic role women have played in shaping the Irish America of today...
...scenes are at once microscopic and cosmic in scope. They are wrought with interpretative possibilities that give them a remarkable freshness in each viewing, while also possessing subtlety and nuance that builds on itself with time...
...it’s a vision that by definition goes beyond Harvard in its scope. What excites outsiders, from Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino to MIT scientists, about Summers’ vision is that it calls for the creation of a fertile climate for the growth of the biotechnology industry...
...addition to raising money and expanding the campus physically, Snyder also worked to add professors to the HSPH faculty and widen the scope of the school’s curriculum into emerging fields such as demography and human ecology...