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...people assigned to the new department will be involved in controlling the nation's borders. The idea, says Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, is to present "one face at the border." It's long overdue. Such a merger was talked about as far back as Herbert Hoover's Administration, but the departments that control services like the Coast Guard (Transportation), Immigration and Naturalization (Justice) and Customs (Treasury) have jealously guarded their turf. Merging them will be a culture shock, as each has its traditions and ways of doing business...
...Herbert Demel wistfully recalls his first car--a slate-gray Alfa Sud that got him obsessed with engines and racing. His parents tried to break the spell by dispatching him to a race track outside Vienna to do lube jobs for three months. The move backfired. "I loved it," says Demel, 48. Today he doesn't just mess around with cars. He's about to transform how they are made...
...wrong at its core. I think that our foreign policy, based on an openly proclaimed intention to dominate the world, is a recipe for getting our country in some of the worst trouble it's ever been in." Bush, Gore says, has compiled the worst economic record since Herbert Hoover. "For Democrats to lose the Senate and to lose ground in the House means that we have got to examine what we could have done more effectively as a party. I think it's the time now for us to be a loyal opposition, not just in name...
Apparently worried about the teaching staff at Harvard, Lowell and Greenough both met separately with the head instructor of Psychology A, Professor Herbert S. Langeld, who assured them that he had never delivered a lecture on homosexuality. “[I]deas on entire perfectly sound,” concluded The Court...
Unfortunately, this is far from the only instance in which Harvard’s decision-makers have acted unethically with no opportunity for community supervision. Just over six months ago, Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur resigned from the Harvard Corporation—the self-selecting secretive seven-member body with ultimate say over all of Harvard’s actions—because of his close ties to Enron. At the same time as he was chairing Enron’s finance committee as it suspended ethical standard after ethical standard, he was, ironically, also chairing...