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...Recruit a Rapid-Response Reserve Corps The disarray and lack of a coordinated response to 9/11 and Katrina tell us there is a role volunteers can play in responding quickly to disasters and emergencies. The new Rapid-Response Reserve Corps would consist of retired military and National Guard personnel as well as national- and community-service program alumni to focus on disaster preparedness and immediate response to local and national disasters. The program would initially train 50,000 members, who could be deployed for two-week periods in response to emergencies and serve under the guidance of the Federal Emergency...
...different shows and to art museums," says Q-Tip. "There was real mentorship. Today that's largely absent, and we see the results in the music and in the aesthetic." That result is a stale product, defined by cable channels like BET, now owned by Viacom, which seems to consist primarily of gun worship and underdressed women...
...addition to the unfamiliar landscape and intense competition, the Rathgeber and others had to adjust to a different racing format. In college, races usually consist of a preliminary heat in the morning and a final in the evening, but the Pan Am Games add another level—the semifinals—to the event. As a result, the prelims occur in the evening, with the semis and finals occurring in the mornings of the following two days...
From our office in Hartford, we Connecticut Republicans can only watch in horror. But life as an intern for the minority party does not consist solely of predicting the world's demise over the water cooler. In fact, I am running a cold campaign: helping town committee chairmen navigate campaign finance regulations, planning local television ads, and researching all that Congressman Murphy does wrong. Non-election years are the time for contemplation and preparation, when Republicans see the consequences of their defeat and remember why they even run against Democrats in the first place...
...though Harvard has set its sights on the rest of the world, it has not created a central plan for increasing its presence abroad. While most of Harvard’s outposts consist of a single office with one to five staff members, the University has set few boundaries for how these and future offices can expand in the future...