Word: bureaucratice
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Complicating matters, both New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had staked political capital on carrying out their visions of ground zero. Pataki muscled Silverstein out of the initial planning, organizing a worldwide architecture competition, eventually won by Daniel Libeskind, who designed a complex, including...
High school marijuana users everywhere breathed a heavy, smoke-tinged sigh of relief this past February 1. On that day, Congress amended the Higher Education Act (HEA): College students with pre-college drug offenses would again be eligible for federal financial aid.But students with offenses during college still forfeit their...
The sudden and unexpected resignation of Porter Goss as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on Friday highlights a long bureaucratic battle that's been going on behind the scenes in Washington. Ever since John Negroponte was appointed Director of National Intelligence a year ago and given the task of...
In a speech in San Antonio last week, Negroponte's top deputy, Michael Hayden, declared that an office largely under Negroponte's control - the National Counterterrorism Center, or NCTC - was now in charge of dictating the role other agencies will play in terror analysis. Hayden said too many agencies were...
Homeland Security Adviser Frances Fragos Townsend advocated a two-pronged plan for national preparedness at the Institute of Politics yesterday. Townsend, in a speech entitled “Tranforming National Awareness,” told an audience of about 50 people that a unified effort on the part of federal...