... Staff List xiii–xiv Preface xv 1. “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National C... ...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...on Intern Bonnie D. Jenkins Counsel Reginald F . Johnson Staff Assistant R.William Johnstone Professional Staff Member Stephanie L. Kaplan Special Ass... ...nd to deflect calls for even stronger regulation. In 1983,Attorney General William French Smith revised the Levi guidelines to encourage closer invest... ...m, and Tenet visited Riyadh in May and again in early June. 33 Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, who had taken charge from the ailing King Fahd, promised T... ... country for trial.The Kingdom’s emissary would be its intelligence chief, Prince Turki bin Faisal.Vice President Al Gore later added his thanks to th... ...the event—a plane crash, fire, and partial building collapse—the Arlington County Fire Department served as incident com- mander. Different agencies h... ...ncident required a major rescue, fire, and medical response from Arlington County at the U.S. military’s headquarters—a facility under the control of ...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans an...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B...

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...r her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctri... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...e they were capitalists themselves. 16. Shaping the English Language William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasure of Our Tongue, a... ...tories, such as The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William H. McNeill, Daniel L. Boorstin‘s The Discoverers: A History of Man... ... appealed to Samarkand. When its Arab Caliphate agreed to take the former prince‘s side in his dispute with China, the stage was for a pivotal clash ... ...would have risen by now?‖ —Johann Carl Friedrich Gaus (1777–1855), ―the prince of mathematicians‖ The Missing Keys to the Science Chest If the... ...ger dime-novel tales. Darius was born September 5, 1825, in Westchester county, NY. His father, a wealthy man whose investments went sour, died wh...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books...

...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift ...