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118 CHAPTER FIFTEEN Did Snowden Act Alone? “When you look at the totality of Snowden's actions certainly one hypothesis that jumps out at you, that seems to explain his ability to do all these things, is that he had help and had help from somebody who was very competent in the...

…owned airline, presumably responds to the Russian government when matters of state security are concerned. According to one Aeroflot official, ordinarily all international passengers are required to have a valid passport as well as a visa to the country of final destination. Snow...

…ior to GirlTrek, Dixon was on the front lines of education reform. She served as Director of Leadership Development for one of the largest charter school networks in the country, Achievement First, and directed the start-up of six public schools in New York City for St. Hope and...

…e was more violence. To assume that if we just sat back we would win seemed to me complacent and risky. Yet when I mentioned to Shimon that a couple of our internal polls still actually had Bibi slightly ahead, he just laughed. “I have good polls,” he said. ““Why should I believe...

John Humphrys Award-winning journalist who has been one of the presenters of BBC Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme Today since January 1987. During his career with the BBC, he has also worked as a foreign correspondent in both America and Africa, as well as b...

… development opportunities. The first such course, Poetry of the City, is already in active development, with its first one­credit module, on the poetry of Walt Whitman, currently entering the post­production stage. The second proposed course (either “The Poetry of Character Deve...

…s listeners to laugh. Sometimes hearing a cry of terror directly imputes an instantaneous feeling of fear. Hearing someone weep can produce a feeling of sorrow and perhaps even cause one to cry. This suggests that some forms of vocal communication can elicit direct empathic shar...

…ne 30, 2011). Last week’s package is a bold step towards Federalization and the worst-case outcomes have been avoided (money market failures, bank runs, etc), but markets will remain nervous about Europe. While we’re waiting: large cap growth stocks One day, the melodramas arou...

… Disney. Critics accused Steve Jobs of having a “reality distortion field”, in which the Apple founder’s charisma bludgeoned the boundaries of the practical. Hillis, by contrast, has a sort of “reality enhancement field” in which much of the world as seen through his eyes or hear...

…s so through code. Whether the Trump campaign and Russia have understood the laws and leveraged the laws better than anyone else is not as important as realizing that the Internet and its dominant players, as State and major constituents, have a responsibility to create a more co...

…nd rising corporate profits are patiently waiting for both of them to end While we’re waiting: large cap growth stocks One day, the melodramas around US and European sovereign debt will end. While we’re waiting, one of the asset classes that looks attractive is large cap growth...

…ng and then refining a space in an isolated mountainside for the construction of a towering clock that he had designed, one intended to run for 10,000 years. That ten-millennia span was not accidentally chosen. Humans, when Hillis began his work on the clock, had been around abou...

…architectures could be dramatically extended or modified so as to produce humanlike general intelligence. For instance, one could replace LIDA’s learning algorithms with others that interrelate with each other in a nuanced synergetic way; or one could replace MicroPsi’s simple le...

At this juncture, the Indian rupee seems to be the only one in the region that is expected to display a much lower sensitivity to US rates, outperforming others within Asia. We expect the Monetary Authority of Singapore to keep the SGD NEER in the weaker side of the band for the...

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