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...Thursday morning, President Bush presented John Walters to a crowd gathered in the Rose Garden. Walters, who was Bush?s expected choice to fill the office left vacant by Barry McCaffrey?s January departure, is a conservative known for his hard-line policies on drug offenders...
...everyone vowing to keep up the fight. The budget process, of course, is never over till it's over (think October), and this was just the budget resolution - the broad outlines of fiscal allotment that the individual appropriations subcommittees will now have to fill in with sharper pencils. And they're non-binding, not even requiring Bush's signature - which means the real fights are just beginning...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 is aware of the lack of diversity among House Masters, and we believe he has made an honest effort to recruit minority faculty members to fill the position. The problem with finding minority House Masters does not lie in the search process, but rather in the paucity of minority faculty in general. Minority faculty members are few and far between, and as Lewis notes, they are notoriously busy, with many other demands on their time in addition to classroom and research responsibilities. As a result, the College...
...that Congress has strictly limited how many U.S. troops can be on the ground. The 300 U.S. trainers in Colombia are handcuffed into training and escort missions only. U.S. drug warriors in the region have had to reach elsewhere, into the shadowy world of State Department contractors, to fill many jobs. It's an expensive decision. Chopper and crop-spraying contract pilots can make $100,000 a year. And because the U.S. doesn't want to send active-duty soldiers, the narcowars have come to serve as a retirement plan for ex-U.S. military folks looking for somewhere...
...immediately called 911: “Looking back, I probably should have called his room or his cell phone first but I was panicking. He asked for all this room on the back page and then he goes and disappears on us. What am I supposed to fill the space with now?” When authorities knocked down the door of his room (even though his roommate claimed later that he would have gladly “opened it for them if they had asked”), their search of the room made it “quite clear...