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University President Lawrence H. Summers wrote letters last April to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge ’67 suggesting that a decline in the number of international students who studied in the country would harm the nation’s international stature...
...News from Paraguay is the story of Ella Lynch, a lovely, lusty young Irishwoman who in 1854 meets and arouses the ardor of Francisco Solano Lopez, the cruel and debauched son of the dictator of Paraguay. Francisco--"Franco" to his friends and numerous enemies--spirits Ella off to his homeland, a half-savage tropical Eden complete with snakes and crocodiles and cannibals, oh my, where they live in conspicuous luxury until Franco (who is, like Ella, an actual historical figure) leads the country into a disastrous war with Brazil...
...probably not going to build that system anytime soon. Congress has tried to do it twice in the past two years, and failed both times. First, it created the Department of Homeland Security, which included a whole new bureaucracy-the office of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection-to build the system. But IAIP was almost immediately mugged by the CIA, which backed a new Terrorist Threat Integration Center to do much the same thing. The Pentagon and the FBI ignored both efforts, in the classic passive-aggressive manner of turf-obsessed bureaucrats...
...Neither of the two bills emanated from the White House. Homeland Security came from congressional Democrats; Intelligence Reform from the 9/11 commission. Both ideas sprouted during election seasons; both were popular. Bush opposed the creation of a Department of Homeland Security before he favored it-and he has been unwilling to do the head cracking necessary to ensure that his friend, Secretary Tom Ridge, has the authority to do his job. Bush was dragged into supporting intelligence reform by John Kerry's imprudent campaign demand that the 9/11 commission recommendations be enacted immediately-without any input from, or negotiation with...
...just as the movement was about to reach its apotheosis with a 2000 retrospective at Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales, Mick Namarari, Turkey Tolson and Yala Yala Gibbs were all on dialysis in Alice Springs, far from their families (all have since passed away). Both the homeland movement and the industry that spawned it were faced with extinction...