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...McConnell certainly has his own challenges ahead. The intelligence reform Negroponte was hired to implement is in the dangerous state of being both well under way and nowhere near finished. Negroponte came in with a mandate to ensure that the 16 intelligence agencies, which together approach 100,000 employees, share any information that might stop a terrorist attack and better handle intelligence such as that used to promote the Iraq war. Though details are secret, there seems to have been progress in this area. Congressional and intelligence officials say there also appear to have been improvements in intelligence analysis...
...President, Alexander Lukashenko, signed a pact with Russia that envisaged eventually replacing the Belarusan ruble with the Russian one and suggested a constitutional change that could allow the formal inclusion of Belarus in the Russian Federation. A decade later, both countries say they still intend to implement the agreement, but the dying days of 2006 saw their once cordial relations deteriorate into a battle of brinkmanship. Moscow warned it would turn off gas supplies unless Belarus agreed to hike the price it paid for the fuel. Belarus countered with a threat to block the pipeline through Belarus that transmits...
...Regardless of what Bush decides, he will have two new men to implement his plan. Pentagon sources say that Bush will nominate Navy Adm. William J. Fallon to replace Army Gen. John Abizaid as head of the U.S. military's Central Command, which oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fallon, 61, a Vietnam veteran and Navy pilot, has been head of Pacific Command since 2005. His choice comes as a surprise, because the Central Command has always been headed by either an Army or Marine general, and because Fallon has no direct experience in Iraq or Afghanistan. However, Bush...
...Harvard institutions to move across the Charles River to Allston, according to Harvard’s public plans. It will be the centerpiece of what Hyman hopes to be a “vibrant and interdisciplinary” scientific community. Looking ahead, Hyman says that he will work to implement the recommendations of the University Planning Committee for Science and Engineering, set to be released next month. Hyman says the preliminary proposal for University-wide departments will streamline redundant academic programs in different schools to ensure that they don’t compete with one another...
...financial pain those sanctions cause the regime might give the U.S. a measure of leverage, but only to the extent that they can be used as a chip in pursuit of a grand bargain. For the U.S., progress in the talks requires North Korea's moving quickly to implement some practical steps signaling its readiness to give up nuclear weapons - such as suspending its nuclear fuel production at Yongbon and placing its activities once more under international monitoring. But to do that, North Korea wants an end to the "hostile policy...