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This is a bittersweet week for??me. After more than eight years as Washington bureau chief, Michael Duffy has decided to devote himself full time to reporting and writing for TIME. I can't say I blame him; during his tenure, Michael witnessed two presidential elections, two major wars, one presidential impeachment and the worst terrorist attack in American history. "I never expected history to be quiet," Michael says. "But I didn't expect it to be this raucous...
Thank you for??"4 Places Where the System Broke Down" [Sept. 19]. You provided balanced reporting on how officials responded to Hurricane Katrina. The recovery efforts by the Federal Government were disorganized and sluggish. The disaster has revealed the inefficiency of bureaucracy in times of crisis. FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] was ill prepared to handle the magnitude of the devastation. Its incompetent performance under the leadership of Michael Brown, who had no credentials or experience, reflects poorly on President George W. Bush, who was responsible for Brown's appointment. The majority of the blame, though, lies with local...
...tell you who is responsible for??the incompetent Katrina recovery operation: government, at all levels. But the real question is not who is to blame but how changes can be made so that this never happens again. Finger pointing doesn't solve any problems...
...another routine night for??Shawn Carpenter. After a long day analyzing computer-network security for Sandia National Laboratories, where much of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is designed, Carpenter, 36, retreated to his ranch house in the hills overlooking Albuquerque, N.M., for a quick dinner and an early bedtime. He set his alarm for 2 a.m. Waking in the dark, he took a thermos of coffee and a pack of Nicorette gum to the cluster of computer terminals in his home office. As he had almost every night for the previous four months, he worked at his secret volunteer job until...
...enough for??Merck shareholders that the firm's top drugs, Zocor and Fosamax, are going off patent over the next three years and that the pipeline looks thin. Now investors may have to stomach another bitter pill. A Texas jury last week awarded $253.5 million to the widow of a man who died after taking the painkiller Vioxx. In the first verdict reached in more than 4,000 liability cases involving the drug--which Merck recalled last year after studies indicated a possible link to heart failure--the award cast doubt on Merck's strategy of fighting each case individually...