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...need to know now," snapped George W. Bush's top adviser for counterterrorism and homeland security. "The President will be calling, and I have to have an answer." When Representative Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, phoned Townsend earlier this year to complain that the Coast Guard was dragging its feet on sending him an officer as a temporary adviser, she "made some profane remark," he says, "and the next thing I knew the red tape was cut and the guy was sitting in our committee offices." With Bush, "Fran says exactly what's on her mind...
...year after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, insurance companies have settled 95% of homeowners' claims, paying out $16.4 billion. But the industry remains mired in related lawsuits, which could raise prices and lower availability. Allstate CEO Edward Liddy tells TIME's KATHLEEN KINGSBURY how his business must evolve to keep underwriting the American Dream...
...Florida had a thousand families a day moving in, home values have escalated rapidly, and yet the rate increases we're allowed to charge [by state regulators] have not kept pace with that. So we've made some hard decisions and scaled back our coverage in Florida, the Gulf Coast and in some of the exposed areas in New York. We've raised our rates where appropriate, and we've got different deductibles. We've also added a lot of reinsurance in our business at a very substantial cost that enables us to continue to write in most areas...
Students Who Skip the Ivy League Our story debating the value of an Ivy League education got plenty of mail--not just about East Coast, élite colleges but also about state universities, small private schools, financial aid and consultants for hire. And most readers commented on the pressure of the application process...
Your report was well intended, but by making the Ivy League schools your focus, you perpetuated the idea of these schools as the nation's élite, most desirable campuses. Harvard, Yale and M.I.T. have their counterparts on the left coast in the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford; and Caltech. These campuses are certainly not inferior to the Ivy League campuses, and one of them is a public institution. D. BLAIR GIBSON UCLA, B.A. '78, PH.D. '90 EL CAMINO COLLEGE Torrance, Calif...