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...Washington resident who drops her two tots off at daycare a block from the White House every morning, I must admit to being perhaps unhealthily obsessed with homeland security. I take comfort in the police cars on the corners of downtown streets. I like seeing frail old ladies frisked at the airport. I want my luggage x-rayed, hand-searched, and torn apart by dogs if that?s what it takes to keep my plane from being blown out of the sky by some misguided holy warrior looking to spend eternity with a gaggle of doe-eyed virgins...
...also show that most of us are only moderately confident in the government?s ability to prevent an attack, as well as its ability to handle the aftermath of such an attack. And a solid majority of us think that the government should absolutely be doing more to improve homeland safety-with or without Osama issuing inflammatory warnings from his home recording studio in... wherever...
...hardly surprising then that no one seemed especially perturbed when the now-defunct 9-11 Commission issued a ?report card? on our Homeland Security that would have gotten your average fourth grader busted back to the third grade. All those ?D?s and ?F?s and hardly a flutter of interest from the public at large. Heavy sigh...
...just hope they don?t figure out that dirty diapers are the key to dodging those pesky homeland security rules...
...from enrolling for the fall semester altogether. And Harvard’s nine professional schools noted a significant decrease in international applicants, The Crimson reported in 2004.As a result, University President Lawrence H. Summers wrote a letter in April 2004 to Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge ’67 in which he criticized the damaging impact of visa complications on universities. “We risk losing some of our most talented scientists and compromising our country’s position at the forefront of technological innovation,” Summers wrote.Ladd...