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...There is a large literature on terrorist movements around the world, on the causes and conduct of terrorism and on the efforts of various governments to formulate effective counter-terrorism policies,” Richardson said...
...postattack economic slump? Nik Theodore, research director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago, warns, "When the economy begins to slow down, the staffing industry feels it first." But the dearth of baby-bust workers (born between 1965 and '76) may help counter the bad news. Besides, says Ann Kelleher, president of Mature Resources, an Omaha, Neb., staffing company, special factors may insulate older temp workers, especially highly skilled ones. "We see companies really valuing the work that experienced older workers bring to the table," she says, especially their conscientiousness and judgment...
...director Robert Mueller shook up the FBI today with the bureau's most dramatic reorganization since the post-Watergate reforms. In recognition of the new threats facing the U.S., counter-espionage, the bureau's bread and butter during the Cold War, has received an effective demotion. Dale Watson, who has been in charge of counter-terrorism, will move up to executive assistant director, supervising both C/T and counter-intelligence functions. Also, some resources are expected to be shifted from counter-intelligence to the war on terrorism...
...Another impact of the 9/11 attacks: Mueller is elevating and expanding counter-terror analytical functions into a new Office of Intelligence. He also hopes to hire a respected retired police chief to run a new office of Law Enforcement Coordination, designed to improve the bureau's often-testy relations with state and local police. That office will be supervised by executive assistant director Kathleen McChesney, who will also run the lab, the FBI Academy, the fingerprint division and other support services...
...afraid of my kitchen still. It is not such a bad kitchen. It is functional. There is a nice island-counter top in the middle that collects things like junk mail and form letters from the Vermont Society of Bar Examiners and now, since it is holiday season, pictures of smiling children and beautifully groomed dogs whom no one has ever met. The linoleum floor is swept frequently and, like I said, the Cuisinart is first-rate. But for so long so much of the food in that kitchen was off-limits or bad or would lead to inevitable disappointment...