… naturally bubbled away into clarity. From E’Mei temple, with this fresh, clear-running mind, Nan began a quest to sharpen his spirit even further. The journey took him, for nearly a decade, from master to master in China, from monastery to university to rural huts. These were t...
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Russian authorities. On Sept. 23, 2013, Mr. Kucherena gave a long interview to Sophie Shevardnadze, a journalist for Russia Today television. When Ms. Shevardnadze directly asked him if Mr. Snowden had given all the documents he had taken from the NSA to journalists in Hong Kong...
…ling with well known individuals like myself, then in fact the situation is quite the opposite. My high public profile opens me up to more scrutiny at these institutions, not less, and it also opens me up to a host of outside complaints and allegations that other faculty do not r...
…rs, external factors (such as weather) impacting operations, and the STB installing mandatory reciprocal switching (or open access) to the rail network without proper pricing. SVB Financial Group (SIVB) We use a three-factor valuation framework (P/TBV, P/E, DCF) to arrive at ou...
introduces a range of new incentives/ penalties that force market participants to address major cost, efficiency, and quality issues within the healthcare system. The ACA and other healthcare reform initiatives are challenged by dual and somewhat conflicting objectives. They are...
187 The U.Ss also had the ability to track Snowden’s movements via the cell phones of his lawyers and other confederates after he surfaced. This tracking could all be done by the NSA. What the U.S. lacked was any practical means to capture a high-profile intelligence defector in...
102 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS intelligence service. When she traveled, she bought “burner” phones locally and disposed of them before any calls could be traced back to her. Upon arriving in Hong Kong, she avoided meeting Snowden face-to-face out of concern about the surveil...
Checkmating With Pawns It was a hot day at the chess tournament in Phoenix, Arizona—103 degrees, to be exact—and 14-year-old Nathaniel Dight was elated over his custom-made chess set. Those carved wooden pieces had been weighted precisely for the smooth moves he liked to make. E...
104 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS government filed charges, though, Snowden could further expect it would invalidate his passport to go anywhere except for his return to the United States, and Interpol would issue a red alert to all its mem- bers. Because his case involved nati...
98 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS reporter in Berlin in 2014. “The risks became very great,” she said in describing her situation in Hong Kong. So, on June 15, she left Hong Kong and flew back to Berlin, where she began editing her footage of the Snowden interview. Meanwhile, S...
…erican life. However, these virtues cannot eclipse the reality that in certain key ways China is exploiting America’s openness in order to advance its aims on a competitive playing field that is hardly level. For at the same time that China’s authoritarian system takes advantage...
…ng the politically correct and socially significant film to box office heaven of $200 million. Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer were forecast to win Oscars. In September, the Toronto and New York Film Festivals and Fox Searchlight presented Alexander s's Hawaiian family saga, "Th...
cancer. May William Cox Jr., 82. The patriarch of the Bancroft clan that for 105 years controlled New York-based Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, who helped persuade the extended family to sell the company to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. in 2007. Died on Ma...
With its eminent scholars and world-renowned library and archives, the Hoover Institution seeks to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity, while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all mankind. The views express...
…ed.” Siegel and Kretchmer had been discussing the possibility of publishing an issue on rock and roll, so to make it happen, Kretchmer went into the office at night and retyped the magazine’s schedule to include their ideas. When the new editorial started, Kretchmer handed him...