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Despite its intention to provide guidance for departments unsure about where cuts should be made, the meeting left many professors without clear plans of action...
...Smith’s targets for reductions came only a few days after officials at Harvard Medical School confirmed that they were taking similar action, asking departments to plan for 10 percent decreases in their budgets, but acknowledging that actual cuts were unlikely to reach those levels...
...Ahmed debacle has amplified the indignant chorus demanding an overhaul of India's intelligence and security apparatuses in the wake of the Mumbai massacre. But experts say little concrete action has been taken so far. One reason is the scale of the problem: India is a country of 1.1 billion people and is regularly (and increasingly) targeted by terrorists, but its internal security agency, the Intelligence Bureau (IB), has fewer than 3,000 field operatives. Only 400 of these operatives are assigned to counterterrorism operations...
...Given the heightened threat perception over the last three to four years, there has to be a system of tagging to let the local police know which threats to take seriously," John says. He adds that the system needs a federal mechanism to follow up on what action is taken on intelligence disseminated among the security agencies...
...hold them up to the public for political impact. But that's it," he says. "We need manpower and technology and matériel on war footing. Normal bureaucratic practice will not work; we need to reinvent procedures. It can be done overnight ... if you are flexible and in action mode." Even after the Mumbai carnage, he claims, the requisite political will and sense of urgency remain lacking. "We have such an incoherent and incapable leadership, and across all political parties." While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seems to understand the scale of the challenge, Sahni says, "he doesn't seem...