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...Before Air Force One even sets down in North Carolina, two familiar voices will have weighed in on the theme that carried the president to re-election last year: homeland security. This morning, the 9/11 Public Disclosure Project releases its progress report on American preparedness for another terrorist attack. Their diagnosis: The nation has made little headway on their recommendations of greatest import. "We may be giving grades tomorrow and I'll tell you there are more F's, unfortunately than there are A's," the former Republican New Jersey governor, Tom Keane, said Sunday on NBC's "Meet...
Voltage provides encryption software to banks and health-care providers to safeguard financial and medical records. The company also works with government agencies and ran trials with the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense to develop secure methods of transmitting and storing government information more quickly and cheaply than current encryption systems allow...
There is an entirely fictional scene in the movie in which Avner and his Palestinian opposite number meet and talk calmly, with the latter getting a chance to make his case for the creation of a homeland for his people. That scene means everything to Kushner and Spielberg. "The only thing that's going to solve this is rational minds, a lot of sitting down and talking until you're blue in the gills," says Spielberg. Without that exchange, "I would have been making a Charles Bronson movie--good guys vs. bad guys and Jews killing Arabs without any context...
...first is the compelling story of an idealistic group of Yale law students and their professor who fought to get the Haitian refugees into America. Goldstein intersperses this story with an account of the harrowing journey of Yvonne Pascal, a young pro-democracy activist who escaped torture in her homeland only to find herself fenced in on Guantánamo. “Storming the Court” is a fascinating legal drama—a sort of modern “Amistad...
...world. But even without the provocation of Iraq, there's no reason to assume the terrorist threat to the U.S. would disappear. "Whether we pull out of Iraq or not," says a U.S. counterterrorism official, "al-Qaeda will still want to hit us where it hurts: in the homeland...