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...both agreed that the Angels are a ballclub with no real “big-hitter” per se. They instead rely on a great pitching staff, built around John Lackey, Jared Weaver, and Ervin Santana. And their lineup gets the job done...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips | Title: A FAN FOR SALE PART 2: Angels Aren't Just in the Outfield | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

Thomas E. Perez, who is also a Kennedy School alum, will work with the Justice, health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, and Housing and urban Development departments. Clark Kent Ervin ’80 will review Department of Homeland security transition issues...

Author: By Marianna N Tishchenko, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Profs, Alumni Join Obama Transition Teams | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...required to give Congress weekly briefings on how the money is being spent. The first such report spanned 10 spreadsheet-packed, rather puzzling pages--including a two-page glossary--breaking out spending into numerous categories, including human services and infrastructure. "You can't prevent [abuse]," says Clark Kent Ervin, the former inspector general at the DHS. "The issue is what you can do to minimize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Spend (Almost) $1 Billion A Day | 9/18/2005 | See Source »

...power to order a mandatory evacuation or federalize troops. But eerily similar proposals were made after Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and here we are again. If Andrew is any guide, it will prove more politically palatable to spend more money and appoint more experts. And that, says Clark Kent Ervin, former inspector general for the DHS, would be a huge improvement. "I am a Republican. I am not one of these people who thinks the answer to everything is more money," says Ervin. "But I do think part of the problem is that we've tried to do Homeland Security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 4 Places Where the System Broke Down | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

...need to start thinking of homeland security the way we think of national security, Ervin and others argue. That would mean billions more. But it also might mean a chain of command that made more sense. No one can say the military is functioning seamlessly these days, but there is, at least, someone in charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 4 Places Where the System Broke Down | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

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