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...question that is all too relevant in the days of liberty vs. security: How far do we want our protectors to go in our name? There's no simple answer. Mackey (played by Michael Chiklis, of the lame sitcom Daddio, with surprising cocksure charisma), runs the elite strike-team unit in one of L.A.'s. toughest precincts. But the unit is really a gang itself--corrupt, racist and bullying (even to other cops) and running its own testosterone-charged...
When the Bush administration was warned after Sept. 11 that Osama bin Laden might have some type of nuclear device, it knew where to turn for help: the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, a secretive unit within the Department of Energy. Last January the Administration quietly ordered NEST to launch periodic searches for a "dirty bomb" in Washington and other large U.S. cities. Administration officials tell TIME that the NEST teams aren't dispatched to urban areas because of any specific threat received. Instead, almost every week the FBI randomly selects several cities for visits by NEST, which comprises some...
...operation in Yemen best demonstrates the latter point. In a war-torn country where, less than two years ago, terrorists bombed the U.S.S. Cole, Bush has authorized the deployment of a scant 100 troops. What is more, this contingent will not be deployed as a single unit, but in groups of 20 to 30, rendering them effectively dependent on a weak Yemeni government for security...
...always been this way for economics at Harvard or economics in general. At Harvard, up until 1984 when Baker Professor of Economics Martin Feldstein arrived from his post as the chair of President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers, Ec 10 included several units on critical perspectives of neoclassical economics. Once Feldstein arrived, the unit was cancelled. The Feldstein coup at Harvard mirrors a similar transformation that occurred in economics in the middle of this century. Before the middle of the 20th century, very few people, intellectuals included, considered the economy separate from moral beliefs of what...
...Sometimes we left people wide open in front of the crease, and that’s unfair to her. But this is a new defense, and we’re not all on the same page yet. Once we start playing as a unit, though, we’re going...