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...Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is “critically vulnerable” to a terrorist attack, and the state’s defense efforts are both underfunded and understaffed, according to a report released last month by a joint committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security...
...subway systems remain extremely vulnerable to attacks. The Massachusetts transit system...does not seem to receive the attention that it deserves,” State Rep. Ted Speliotis (D-Danvers) wrote in a letter to the joint committee this month...
...Superdome did open on schedule, and with the fanfare more appropriate to a Super Bowl match. The rock bands U2 and Green Day kicked off Monday's game with a joint performance that included a mashed-up "House of the Rising Sun," with "Superdome" substituting for the titular brothel, and a version of the U2 hit "Beautiful Day." Former president George H.W. Bush was on hand for the opening coin toss, and New Orleans rhythm and blues singer Irma Thomas, backed by Allan Toussaint on piano, turned in a rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner," the final lines drowned...
HIRE THIS MAN'S PRESS SECRETARY During a joint appearance with President Bush, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf dodges questions about his allegation that the U.S. threatened to bomb his country if it did not cooperate in the war on terrorism: "I am launching my book on the 25th, and I am honor-bound to Simon & Schuster not to comment on the book before that day." Can you judge a book by its diplomatic cover...
...recent report authored by the office of Massachusetts State Senator Jarrett T. Barrios ’90 (D-Cambridge), chairman of the Joint Committee of Public Safety and Homeland Security, suggests that the T has been one of the prime victims of this syndrome. “If there were an attack today, the first responders to a T attack are, by all accounts, not any better prepared than they would have been five years ago,” Barrios told the Boston Globe...