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Opponents of the Dubai maritime company's takeover of operations at six ports in the U.S. claimed to have strengthened their case on Monday when a Senate committee released a Coast Guard document warning that, because of intelligence gaps, it couldn't rule out that the company could be infiltrated by terrorists. The Coast Guard has since made clear that its concerns about Dubai Ports World were subsequently addressed and resolved, but Congressional Democrats, not surprisingly, remain skeptical. But lost amid the current controversy is the fact that U.S. port security actually starts overseas, long before cargo arrives...
...approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States in mid-January, would change next to nothing beyond the letterhead of the shipping manifests. U.S. longshoremen will keep their jobs, their unions will continue to organize them, and the majority of managers will stay as well. The Coast Guard and individual port authorities will still be responsible for port safety, and U.S. Customs will still inspect containers. That there would be no change in port security is even more salient when one considers that several U.S. ports are already managed by foreign-owned corporations. In fact...
...Medicare prescription-drug program. On Friday the coalition of House conservatives known as the Republican Study Committee sent a letter to the White House demanding more justification for Bush's spending requests, specifically the $92.2 billion in emergency money that he wants for the war on terrorism and Gulf Coast rebuilding, "so that we can intelligently exercise our constitutional right to appropriate funds...
...CAPTURED. YOUSSOUF FOFANA, 26, self-styled "brain of barbarians" and alleged leader of a Parisian gang accused of abducting and torturing to death Ilan Halimi, 23; in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Halimi, who was Jewish, was found Feb. 13 in the banlieue of Bagneux with extensive chemical burns, bruises and cuts; he died on the way to the hospital. More than a dozen people are in French custody and under questioning about their alleged roles in the crime, which a magistrate has deemed anti-Semitic. France has demanded Fofana's extradition...
...graduating seniors, the Crimson’s youth and inexperience cost the team early once again. In the final game at Lavietes Pavillion for the Harvard women’s basketball Class of 2006, Princeton used an 18-0 run in the first half to pull away early and coast to a 69-57 win on Saturday night. In what has been a season-long trend for the Crimson, Harvard (10-14, 6-5 Ivy) fell behind early in the first half against the Tigers (18-6, 9-2) and never recovered to maintain any kind of offensive rhythm...