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...commission co-chaired by Rudman and former Democratic Senator Gary Hart concluded in January that the threat of terrorism called for nothing short of a new federal department combining FEMA, the Customs Service, the Border Patrol and the Coast Guard. Many in Congress agree. "If you want to get a job done, there's no substitute for having an agency with a budget," says Democrat Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. But given the fact that Republicans in Congress were trying to kill four Cabinet departments only six years ago, it's hard to imagine a Republican...
...foes is no longer a reprise of the Battle of the Bulge or the Battle of Midway but something more insidious, then the almost $300 billion we have been spending each year at the Pentagon's request might have little utility. Ironically, at the beginning of this year the Hart-Rudman report on security challenges to the U.S. very clearly identified terrorist attacks on the American homeland as something we were not well prepared for. The report should get a lot of respect now. We also need to rethink our system of intelligence gathering. If we are to understand...
...Well, that’s a long question. Starting off with the early American modernists: Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane and William Carlos Williams. I would say my great loves which I can read with infinite, infinite pleasure would be Wallace Stevens and Emily Dickinson...
...loved one's DNA. Since the crash of TWA Flight 800, DNA testing is considered obligatory in any case in which bodies are too burned and mangled to be identified through photographs or forensic dentistry. Any body parts that are unclaimed will be buried in a city cemetery on Hart Island in the Bronx...
When I watch CNN now, I am reminded of a phrase from a famous commercial that was used by Walter Mondale to stunning effect against Gary Hart in 1984: “Where’s the beef?” Without question, CNN has gone soft on what used to be hard news...