academic panel at MIT missed the point: “(That is why it is called the Connection Machine.)”189 Hillis’s ambition to build this device boiled in him while he was at MIT, and it finally outstripped what MIT could support, so he gathered a group of students and started a small com...
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and | once had an extreme/y animated discussion on the decriminalization of abortion. Can you imagine what the Democrats would’ ve done with that?" And that was the precise instant | made the decision to leak Professor Hill’ s statement to the press. Although | have constantly b...
As we got closer, I could still see no sign of them. As dawn was about break, I radioed Yitzhik to suggest he fire off a flare, but he thought that would put them at even greater mercy of the Egyptians. Instead, he tossed out a smoke grenade. We spotted it, more than a half-a-mil...
which, I soon verified, we didn’t — the obstacles would be enormous. Unlike the Sabena jet, this one was a wide-bodied Airbus, and El Al had none of those in its fleet. Even we could find a way to make sure a sayeret team got briefed on the airliner, we’d be mounting an attack-an...
154 CHAPTER NINETEEN The Rise of the NSA “There are many things we do in intelligence that, if revealed, would have the potential for all kinds of blowback,” -- National Intelligence” — James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence In the Game of Nations, which is played at...
tension around us and the sense that something momentous was about to happen as the prospect of a state got closer. The memories remain with me to this day, like a series of snapshots. It was on a spring morning in 1947 that I got my first real sense that the Jewish state was so...
“Hombre.” Died Aug. 20 of complications from a stroke. Marian McPartland, 95. The British-born jazz pianist, whose National Public Radio show, in which she interviewed and played with musicians from Benny Goodman to Elvis Costello, was broadcast for more than three decades. Died...
Speedbird is the callsign of British Airways, referring to the stylized bird logo. Captain Peter Burkill of British Airways 38 explains his radio call, “Speedbird, Speedbird... Read More » What do Brits think of France? Se Nate White, Drinks coffee. Writes copy. I'll be hones...
When the guns finally fell silent, I had time to give full rein to my thoughts. There were obviously fundamental questions about how the war had happened, starting with why we hadn’t known ahead of time that two neighboring states were about to attack us — despite sayeret interce...
82 services of the world. In the United States, Xinhua doubled the number of bureaus, adding Chicago, Houston, and San Francisco to its original footprint in Washington, DC, New York, and Los Angeles. Xinhua, like other state-owned Chinese media outlets, also began hiring local...
In the 1980’s, Moishe Zar, a desert castle dwelling, settlement organizing, ardent Orthodox Jewish Zionist, now 65 years old, was the leading vigilante of the West Bank He planted bombs in the cars of Arab mayors and plotted to blow up the Dome of the Rock. Buying up farmland fro...
DAVID BROOKS David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is a political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times. He worked as an editorial writer and film reviewer for the Washington Times; a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal; a senior edito...
REMEMBERING CAVALIER MAGAZINE LAUNCHING A MAGAZINE My friend Michael Simmons, who has been the editor of National Lampoon, recalls that Cavalier hired fine scribes. A few examples: Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, William Saroyan, Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon. Ch...
Chapter I: Nature’s secrets Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse. — Albert Einstein In Charles Darwin’s day, biologists unearthed the mysteries of evolution by means of observation, sometimes accompanied by a simple experiment. T...