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...Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Tom Ridge, secretary of DHS, has proposed changing the unit's name to Bureau of Investigations and Criminal Enforcement, partly to better reflect what the agency does and also to banish any perceptions that it's merely a reincarnation of the poorly regarded, now defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service. But the FBI is objecting, contending that the proposed name is too close...
...bureaucracy, Petraeus - whose Princeton thesis was entitled "The American military and the Lessons of Vietnam" -opted early on in the occupation to spend every cent of his discretionary budget on community projects around Mosul. Minutes into TIME's interview this week, he can scarcely wait to report that the defunct asphalt factory in Mosul which he reopened last year is now producing 200 tons a day. "There are trees falling in the forest and no one is hearing them," he says. "Of course we all do hear what blows up in Baghdad...
...member of the safety committee which instituted the Harvard University Campus Escort Program (HUCEP) in response to growing concern over pedestrian safety following a rash of on-campus assaults. The program, which will continue in the fall, has been applauded by students and has been more effective than its defunct predecessor SafetyWalk...
Then on Dec. 10, The Crimson reported that SafetyWalk, a student group responsible for providing late-night walking escorts, was apparently defunct. Administrators who suggested using the escort program after the St. Paul’s assault were unaware of the program’s dearth of student escorts...
...rash of incidents quickly revealed Harvard’s lackluster crime prevention and awareness programs. After one of the first assaults, administrators urged students to use SafetyWalk, a much-advertised volunteer-run walking escort service. But it was soon revealed that the program had quietly become defunct the previous year. What’s worse, while it had been Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) policy to send an e-mail to officials in the Harvard community within 48 hours of an assault, in many instances these e-mails languished in administrators’ inboxes, and many students did not receive...