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...It’s an experiment,” said McNamara. “But so far it has gone well.” But participants have also been intensifying their training sessions in preparation for the marathon next month. The self-described “Training Czar of HCMC” Matthew R. Conroy ’07 said that training started in early fall, shortly after participants were selected. Conroy is also a Crimson photo editor. While much of the training has been done on an individual basis, many participants choose to train together, Conroy said. Members...
Last week, speaking to the city's business community, Bush's Katrina czar, Donald Powell, promised that the levees would be rebuilt "better and stronger" before hurricane season starts in June--thanks to $1.5 billion Congress approved in December for levee-repair work and temporary floodgates on Lake Pontchartrain. Will it be enough? To find out, the Corps, using a supercomputer and a centrifuge, is running simulations on 1,300 storm possibilities to calculate risk. East New Orleans is its test case, and its report is due later this month. "If there is another Katrina, the system is not built...
John Githongo is a big man. not in the sense that many Africans use that term, to describe autocratic and corrupt leaders. But a big man physically: tall and hefty, his shoulders as solid as the weights he loves lifting. When Githongo was appointed Kenya's anticorruption czar in 2003, Kenyans said that it would take a big guy to tackle the country's massive graft and sleaze problem. His "bulky physique ? seems to match his new enormous responsibilities," a local bbc reporter wrote in an online profile. But could one man take on Kenya's Big Men and force...
...Qaeda plan to use "shoe bombs" to hijack a commercial airplane and fly it into the tallest building on the West Coast - a Los Angeles skyscraper that intelligence analysts later determined was the Library Tower, now named the U.S. Bank Tower. Later in the day, counter-terrorism czar Frances Fragos Townsend told reporters that two South Asian and two Southeast Asian countries had helped arrest all four cell leaders planning the attack, which was designed as a follow up to 9/11 and originally revealed in 2003. Townsend said all four cell leaders are still in custody, although she wouldn...
Really now, isn't working tirelessly toward a shared goal with your allies wonderful? Who wouldn't share in the joy of E.U. foreign affairs czar Javier Solana, German Chancellor Angela Merkel or even - yes - President George W. Bush, as they rhapsodize about the way in which the U.S and the leading West European powers have stood shoulder-to-shoulder trying to get Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions? Of course, these negotiations have gone nowhere, because Tehran rejects their very premise. (What nuclear weapons?) No matter: the Bush Administration has, for once, won praise from pundits delighted...