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...bill would have created a National Intelligence director to ride herd over the CIA, NSA, parts of the FBI and assorted other intel agencies. The czar would have had budgetary authority and also the power to "design" and "implement" the unified computer network. But two House Republican committee chairmen decided to croak the bill on the weekend before Thanksgiving-in large part because the reform was opposed by the Pentagon, which controls 80% of the intelligence budget. An effort is being made to revive it, but don't hold your breath...
...national level but also at the international level, and they know what businesses want." Many expect the Socialists to intervene in business less than the PP did. Four out of five of Spain's largest companies - Telefónica, oil company Repsol, BBVA, and utility giant Endesa - have chairmen appointed by the previous government. Some fear they will get turfed out. But while the government is said to have quietly encouraged Telefónica to invest more in broadband, for instance, few expect it to get heavy-handed. A drastic bloodletting, says José Manuel Campa, professor of finance...
...thought democracy was about the people choosing their government, not about Democratic and Republican party chairmen forcing us to pick between the two people they support. Although I would much rather see a Democrat in office than Bush again, I refuse to continue to vote for the lesser of two evils. My vote for Nader is not a vote for Bush. It is a vote for Nader, and I hope it will shake up the hegemonic two-party electoral system so in the future voters will have a real choice. ELIZABETH DAWN CREACH Beaverton...
...could over time become part of the public debate,” Kupchan said. “It is obviously of importance that the co-chairmen Larry Summers and Henry Kissinger are individuals of considerable visibility and stature...
...will reimburse the fund for any gains found to be improper.) But cleaning up the mutual-fund industry will take more than that. "I don't see this as a governance issue," says John Brennan, chairman of the Vanguard Group. "Half the named funds [in the scandal] had independent chairmen...