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...terrorists. Why not look at the real roots of this terrorism? The radical Islamists hate us because we are in their countries, owing to America's increasing need for oil. If the U.S. had a Department of Alternative Energy, we might someday be able to eliminate the Department of Homeland Security. Robert R. Newell Nellysford...
...said U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell last week. Far from getting another "bite at the cherry," as one U.N. official puts it, Greek Cypriots may be facing de facto permanent partition of their island, barring them from one of the most fertile and picturesque parts of their beloved homeland. Cyprus has been keeping international negotiators busy since an Athens-backed coup triggered the invasion of the northern part of the island by Turkish troops in 1974. Today, U.N. peacekeepers still keep the two sides apart along a fortified "green line" that runs the width of the island, trimmed with...
...mass destruction might be found in Iraq. ?They could still be there like the 50 tons of mustard gas hidden on a turkey farm,? he said, referring to recent findings that Libya stored the lethal chemical before it renounced such weapons. He wished he?d created a Department of Homeland Security, but failed to mention that he had opposed it. Echoing what his advisers had said, he noted that he would have ?moved heaven and earth? had he known 9/11 was coming. Once again, the president portrayed the war with Iraq as an extension of the war on terror...
...grew to the point that even Republicans were abandoning him. When Bush finally did reverse course--on the day FBI agent Coleen Rowley went public about the 9/11 clues that had fallen through the cracks--he went on the air in a national address and insisted that a new Homeland Security Department was needed. And in the months that followed, he even helped Republicans ride the issue to victory in the 2002 midterm elections...
...just as well be called the Harvard Act” since most other schools have capitulated to ROTC or made clear their willingness to reject government funding if it comes to that. If Harvard refuses, the bill threatens to strip the University of all funding from the Departments of Homeland Security, Energy, Transportation and the Central Intelligence Agency. According to Kevin Casey, the University’s Federal Relations chief, the cost would likely amount to over $400 million...