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...combat the terrorists' ambitions, the Administration has tried to sort out the well-aired problems of coordination and analysis that dogged the counterterrorism operation last year. The effort has had mixed success. The Administration's belated proposal for a Department of Homeland Security remains bottled up in Congress. The FBI is just at the beginning of a mammoth reorganization to refocus its mission on counterterrorism. In June, a mere 10 months after Bush and his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, chose retired General Wayne Downing to head counterterrorism operations at the National Security Council, Downing abruptly resigned, frustrated...
...returned to the cold calculus of midterm elections. With Wellstone's death, the Senate is divided 49 to 49 to 1. If Coleman were to win, he would fill the vacancy immediately, and Republicans would suddenly have an advantage that could help them push through President Bush's struggling Homeland Security bill before the new year. Optimism, though, was hard to find among G.O.P. officials, who fear a possible repeat of what one G.O.P. Senator called the "Jean Carnahan syndrome." Two years ago, Carnahan's husband, Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, died in a plane crash while campaigning. His name remained...
...administration is trying to divert attention from would-be problems. The economy is stronger than ever, all Americans are covered by health care, corporate executives are using their year-end bonuses for charity, and we’ve successfully finalized creation of a new cabinet department for homeland security. Life could not be better...
...economic cost of the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S. was estimated to be tens of billions of dollars. But as Indonesians like Yasin begin to assess the damage of the terrorism that has slammed into their homeland, some fear their cost ultimately could be far greater than the toll in America?that it could turn Indonesia, the world's fourth most-populous country, into a failed state. Just four years after the dictator Suharto was run out of office, the sprawling archipelago is struggling to emerge as a stable democracy. It hosts a full complement of developing-country ills...
Before departing for his homeland, Wamba served as the editor-in-chief of the Cambridge-based Africana.com website, which Gates founded in 1999 to educate Americans about African culture...