Word: homelands
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...gave up a lifetime appointment as a federal judge to take Washington's most thankless job, Director of Homeland Security. But Michael Chertoff, 51, has big plans to streamline the department, allocating aid for states more wisely and informing the public of possible threats without alarming them. He sat down with TIME's Brian Bennett for his first extensive interview...
Ever since Bernard Kerik, George W. Bush's choice to head the Department of Homeland Security, withdrew his name from consideration last December, the President had been playing it safe with his second-term nominations. And so it came as a surprise to almost everyone, in Washington and in foreign capitals, when the President last week announced John Bolton as his pick for the next U.S. ambassador to the U.N. A senior State Department official whose 24-year career in and out of government has been defined by a self-professed distaste for treaties, contempt for diplomatic niceties and hostility...
...Iraq could have in mind. Intelligence officials tell TIME that interrogation of a member of al-Zarqawi's organization, who was taken into U.S. custody last year and has been described as a top aide, indicates that al-Zarqawi has given ample consideration to assaults on the American homeland. According to a restricted bulletin that circulated among U.S. security agencies last week, the interrogated aide said al-Zarqawi has talked about hitting "soft targets" in the U.S., which could include "movie theaters, restaurants and schools...
Last April, University President Lawrence H. Summers sent letters to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell and then-Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge ’67, citing decreases in applications and enrollment from international students. Summers suggested that these might be the result of restrictions on travel after the terrorist attacks of Sept...
...also gained considerable recognition outside of homeland. His 1993 film Seopyonje garnered three international prizes, in addition to the 27 awards it received at Korean film festivals. Chunhyang, released in 2002, became the first Korean film ever to be accepted at Cannes and was also an official selection at the Telluride, Toronto and New York Film Festivals in that year...