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...role is to call it like we see it, to tell policymakers what we know, what we don't know, what we think and what we base it on. That's the code we live by." Asked to translate, an intelligence official explained that if there was a breakdown on the Bush team, it wasn't at the agency. "There's one issue in terms of collecting and analyzing intelligence," he said. "Another issue is what policymakers do with that information. That's their prerogative...
Nevertheless, the transition to Peoplesoft had many of the same problems as the transition to Project ADAPT. There seemed to be, at least temporarily, a breakdown in communication between the administrators implementing the system and the users—or at least the student users—of the new system...
...There was not the greatest understanding about how the neighborhood feels about itself and encroachment,” said Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’71. He added that the recent order was “in response to what seems to me to be a kind of breakdown...
...school, merchants wary of opening their stores and law-abiding Iraqis nervous about going out after dark. The Americans have tried to blame pro-Saddam saboteurs for the collapse of order. Lieut. General David McKiernan, head of the U.S. land forces in Iraq, said last week that Baghdad's breakdown was largely the result of an organized resistance engineered by Saddam loyalists. But other military officials say this is secondary to the main issue: restoring the minimum quality of life for ordinary Iraqis--a job, electricity, proper sewage, safe streets. An American intelligence official says he believes that the amount...
...Hong Kong at present suffers from both a structural shift in the world's economic geography and a plague, the virulence and duration of which is poorly understood. Following the breakdown of socialist and communist ideology in China and the Soviet Union, and the end of policies of self-reliance and isolation on the Indian subcontinent, the developed world's economic sphere has been enlarged by the same factor as during the great era of European exploration.More than 3 billion people have recently joined the global market economy. This means Hong Kong has new competitors, as do Japan, South Korea...