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...building legitimately upgraded what a former TSA official describes, in a rebuttal to the report, as the "completely inadequate" command-and-control system the agency had in its early days. The rebuttal recounts two events in Los Angeles on July 4, 2002--when a small plane crashed into a crowd of picnickers a few minutes after a man opened fire inside the airport--when TSA officials were stymied because they could not stay in constant contact with their staff in L.A. TSA spokesman Mark Hatfield, who would not comment on the unpublished report or rebuttal, says the new headquarters...
...Last month, he insisted on flying back to Germany to welcome home his soldiers from their year in Iraq. Last Thursday, he was back at Walter Reed, being fitted with his first prosthesis. But Jurgersen - already an aging soldier - is focused on a single goal: returning to his command. If doctors declare him fit for duty within a year, he could head back to Iraq. A precedent has already been set by Captain David Rozelle, a 33-year-old amputee who lost his right foot after his Humvee rolled over a land mine in Iraq in June 2003. He headed...
...That said, the U.S. hasn't yet ceded command and control to the Iraqis. "We train the rank-and-file but we're the leadership," says the Pioneer commander. However well-trained, the Iraqi special forces comprise only a tiny fraction of the 57,000-member Iraqi army, which has been plagued by low morale, inconsistent training and infiltration by insurgents...
After he cries about both his past tragedy and this new case that threatens disaster, Willis just barely regains composure long enough to override local authorities and take over command. While Willis has played this caring-but-tough roll before (The Fifth Element), the abrupt transitions between teary scenes and action thrills are unconvincing...
...with floods of new arrivals have come new issues and conflicts. Part of the problem is technical. To withstand a nuclear blast and keep on ticking, the Net was built without a central command authority. That means that nobody owns it, nobody runs it, nobody has the power to kick anybody off for good. There isn't even a master switch that can shut it down in case of emergency. "It's the closest thing to true anarchy that ever existed," says Clifford Stoll, a Berkeley astronomer famous on the Internet for having trapped a German spy who was trying...