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...Qaeda used similar devices in the truck bomb that blew up the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam in 1998 and in a 2002 attack on a Tunisian synagogue. Shortly after the document surfaced last summer, the Department of Homeland Security began contacting limousine firms to warn of the danger. With hundreds of limos expected to jam the capital this week, authorities are on the alert. --By Adam Zagorin
...FEEL ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT'S REQUIRING YOUR CITY TO USE SOME OF ITS HOMELAND-SECURITY FUNDS TO PAY FOR THE INAUGURATION SECURITY? It's outrageous. It's ridiculous. The Federal Government has picked up the tab every other year. Why should the taxpayers of D.C. pay? The Bush Republicans are terrible...
...Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Public Health, the National Guard, and Massachusetts State authorities have shacked up in an emergency bunker in Framingham in order to plan for a possible threat—the same bunker in which they met after Sept. 11, 2001—according to the Boston Globe...
...Saigon in 1975, the victorious communists folded all Buddhist sects into one state-controlled church, and monks who wouldn't submit were placed under pagoda arrest. Nhat Hanh's writings were seized by the authorities, and the monk was unable to get a visa to return to his homeland for nearly 30 years. After more than a year of negotiations, Hanoi allowed him and 200 followers to come back for four months of touring and teaching. (The government also allowed four of his books to be printed...
Yesterday, he nominated Michael Chertoff ’75—also a graduate of Harvard Law School (HLS)—to replace Tom Ridge ’67 as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). On Friday, Bush tapped Robert B. Zoellick—a graduate of HLS and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG)—to serve as deputy secretary of state. And on Monday, Bush appointed Harvard Business School (HBS) and HLS graduate Allan B. Hubbard to act as a top economic policy adviser and director of the White...