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...national newspapers was Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The missile-defense scheme he has championed for years took an important step closer to fruition as the White House dispatched its diplomats to pitch the project in the capitals of the world, and the press talked of a unified Space Command like so many excitable adolescents. But the primary reason for the media attention Rumsfeld enjoyed this week was the fact that he is playing maestro in what may be the most comprehensive overhaul ever of the U.S. military - and is keeping the nation guessing (and its media furiously speculating) over just...
...Another reason Rumsfeld was in the news this week were reports that he'd pressed for the consolidation of the space divisions of the different armed forces into a single space command under an Air Force general. This was not a particular dramatic shift, despite the media spinning it as a step to realizing Rumsfeld's Flash Gordon vision of a Space Force protecting U.S. satellites from attack by earthly rogues. But it is an indication that the media is hanging on his every word...
...president of Harvard cannot command people to do anything,” Gomes says...
...course it would. But before you go expecting something as exotic as rational behavior from the postal service, you have to remember we?re talking about a massive government bureaucracy, in which estimates of profit margins can take months, even years, to travel up the chain of command. And when information finally reaches the top of that chain, it is often met by befuddled managers. Take, for example, Postal Board Chairman Robert F. Rider. When he announced the rate increases Tuesday, Rider said they were necessary "to assure the financial integrity of the nation's postal system." Wait - wasn...
...some of my men killed that night." Instead, in a 90-sec. fire fight, seven V.C. were gunned down--but not before a grenade landed on Kerrey's foot, shattering his leg and wounding his groin, chest and face. Declining morphine for the pain, Kerrey refused to relinquish his command until he had got his men to safety...