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...letter addressed to Secretary of State Colin Powell and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, Summers urged immediate revisions of the student visa application process to avert the detrimental decline in foreign graduate students across the country. The situation has become so acute that Harvard and other institutions can no longer attract adequate numbers of foreign graduate applicants...
...many international students are forced to wait in the dark for the results of their visa applications, with no indication of when the decision will be made. This indefinite delay is frustrating as many students cannot work, study or make reasonably informed decisions for their future. The Department of Homeland Security must not veil administrative disorganization with the pretense of national security. To drag their feet when students can be screened in a timely manner is unacceptable. We hope the Bush administration receives Summers’ recommendations with open arms and takes decisive action to maintain the esteem of American...
...made mistakes" and warned that it would take an additional five years to rebuild the clandestine service. In what is perhaps the closest anyone in the Bush Administration has come to a formal acknowledgment of responsibility, Tenet said, "We all understood bin Laden's attempt to strike the homeland, but we never translated this knowledge into an effective defense of the country." But Cofer Black, head of the CIA's clandestine service who holds the storied title of director for operations, was unbowed. "I've heard people say this country wasn't at war. I want to tell...
...Buddhism are a cherished part of many a neighborhood. Since being driven into exile by Chinese troops in 1959, the Dalai Lama has set up more than 50 flourishing Tibetan communities in exile, overseen the transmission of his culture and its religion around the world and ensured that his homeland will have a life in many countries even as it is losing that life in Tibet itself...
...What would be fantastic is if the Department of Homeland Security included the scientific community in some form in the planning of preparedness for disaster and made provisions to plan for mental health causalities,” Yahuda said...