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...Cold War, granting it power to cope with a nuclear attack and even, reportedly, implement martial law--prompting clashes over jurisdiction with the Justice Department. Meanwhile, underqualified political appointees fill the agency's bureaucracy; in 1985 FEMA Director Louis Giuffrida steps down amid allegations of fraud. SUCCESS FAILURE George H. W. Bush 1989-1993 UNPREPARED FEMA's lackluster response to 1989's Hurricane Hugo prompts Senator Fritz Hollings to denounce it as the "sorriest bunch of bureaucratic jackasses I've ever known." Yet the agency is caught flat-footed again when Hurricane Andrew overwhelms southern Florida in 1992, leaving...
...Joining Martin on the committee are William F. Lee '72 , a former member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and co-managing partner of the large Boston law firm WilmerHale; Mark H. Moore, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School; government department chair Nancy L. Rosenblum; Matthew L. Sundquist '09, president of the Undergraduate Council; and Harvard Law School professor David B. Wilkins...
...Venky first announced his intentions to step down as dean in June 2005 before deciding to stay on another year after both former University President Lawrence H. Summers and former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby left their positions...
...been a wonderful director in that he can advise and suggest without dictating and still bring out the best in researchers,” Burns said, adding that the Junior Fellows program in particular have been a continuation of the ideals that the Institute’s founder Edwin H. Land espoused. “You sort of don’t know he’s directing, but the end result is really good...
...other French arrival to have really piqued the curiosity of London's gourmands is former Alain Ducasse protégé Hélène Darroze, whose two-Michelin-star restaurant on Paris' Left Bank has a formidable following. Darroze has taken up the pivotal role of executive chef of the reborn Connaught, www.the-connaught.co.uk, coming up with a menu that offers elegant reworkings of rustic dishes from the Landes region of her upbringing. Don't miss her caviar in black jelly and oyster tartare with a velouté of haricot beans...