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...This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] ADMINISTRATION ANALYSIS Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 HIGH HOPES In 1979 Carter merges some 100 disconnected aid programs into a new agency in order to better coordinate U.S. disaster response. The organization proves unwieldy and ill-equipped to implement preventive measures or deter residents from rebuilding in disaster-prone areas like Dauphin Island, Ala., obliterated by Hurricane Frederic and subsequent storms. SUCCESS FAILURE Ronald Reagan 1981-1989 WIDENING REACH Reagan reinterprets FEMA's role to fit the Cold War, granting it power to cope with a nuclear attack and even, reportedly...
...remaining single longer, being housemates makes perfect sense not just financially but socially too. "What are you going to do--come home to an empty house every night?" asks James Cartlidge, who in 2004 co-founded Share to Buy, a British firm that helps co-hos get mortgages. Erik Carter, 29, a law student in San Diego, is considering buying a house (and a spectacularly large house at that) with four other people: his girlfriend, another couple and a fifth friend. "It's like a reversion to the old extended family," he says. "But now you choose your family...
...Abkhazia of a truly independent international security force replacing Russian troops), the U.S. should contemplate withdrawing from the 2014 Winter Games, to be held in the Russian city of Sochi, next to the violated Georgia's frontier. There is a precedent for this. I was part of the Carter Administration when we brandished the Olympic torch as a symbolic weapon in 1980, pulling out of the Summer Games in Moscow after the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. The Soviet Union had planned a propaganda show reminiscent of Hitler's 1936 Olympics in Berlin. America's boycott delivered a body blow...
...Brzezinski, who was National Security Adviser to President Carter, is co-author, with Brent Scowcroft, of America and the World, to be published in September
...interrogation did work? Perhaps the most striking example—the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, whose coercive treatment produced a litany of confessions—will provide a cautionary tale. Over the course of his interrogation, Mohammed boasted of plans to assassinate President Bill Clinton, President Jimmy Carter, and Pope John Paul II, among others. CIA cables back to Washington warned that “the detainee has been known to withhold information or deliberately mislead.” Never mind that by treating Mohammed so poorly, U.S. officials ceded precious moral ground; on a practical level, his maltreatment...