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Come 2004 and he’s a spectator no longer. Balestracci left his throne in the middle of the Crimson defense to the eager Thomas, and Harvard plugged a gaping hole almost seamlessly. After graduating four first-team All-Ivy defenders, coach Tim Murphy sought a quick fix to potential defensive woes...
...went ahead and used it as the basis for a July 2002 report arguing that Saddam was beginning to reconstitute his nuclear weapons programs (whereupon he received a big pay bonus). I don’t believe the CIA should be exempted from political oversight, but neither am I eager to see the whole-scale politicization of our national intelligence apparatus...
...want to turn his attention to the Pentagon, which controls eighty percent of the nation’s $40 billion intelligence budget. The 9/11 Commission Report recommended that Congress create a National Director of Intelligence (NDI), and empower the position with budgetary authority. Rumsfeld, however, isn’t eager to cede any power to a new NDI. Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are currently deadlocked with their Senate counterparts on this issue. A bi-partisan Senate bill would strip Rumsfeld of some of his budgetary powers and transfer them to the new NDI, but the House Republicans aren?...
Team coach Carlene Connors said she has been thrilled with the development of the squad, morphing from an unproven pack of eager players to national title contenders in just a few short months...
...officials estimate that some 12,000 insurgents are under arms, but privately they say the number may be closer to 20,000. The violence has throttled reconstruction programs that might once have won the U.S. a base of support, and it's hard to see how even the most eager rebuilder could get repairs back on track before the country is pacified...