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RESIGNING. TOM RIDGE, 59, as the country's first Secretary of Homeland Security; TOMMY THOMPSON, 63, as Secretary of Health and Human Services; and JOHN DANFORTH, 68, as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Ridge's nominated replacement is BERNARD KERIK, 49, the brusque and blunt former New York City police commissioner who won praise for his calm crisis management in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks...
In calculating his odds of getting confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security, former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik and his advisers had reckoned they could handle the issue of Kerik's reputation for occasional lapses of judgment in personal matters. Or that the smell of some conflict-of-interest issues still clung to him. "Everything seemed pretty normal, at least by Washington or New York standards," his mentor and boss, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, told TIME. "It is never pleasant. You deal with it." But they hadn't counted on the nanny. Kerik's disclosure...
Giuliani insists that his protégé's withdrawal is solely about the nanny problem--and not about the cacophony of other issues that surfaced, like Kerik's recent $6.2 million windfall from exercising stock options in Taser International, a stun-gun company on whose board he serves and which does business with the Department of Homeland Security. Kerik never warned the Bush Administration about a potential nanny issue, a senior official says. "He's a workaholic. These are things he doesn't concentrate on," says Giuliani. When Kerik called the White House to tell them of the problem...
RESIGNING. TOM RIDGE, 59, as the first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security; TOMMY THOMPSON, 63, as Secretary of Health and Human Services; and JOHN DANFORTH, 68, as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Ridge's nominated replacement is BERNARD KERIK, 49, the plainspoken former New York City police commissioner who helped guide the city during the Sept. 11 attacks and was a vocal supporter of George W. Bush's re-election...
...signify the changes under way, Baghdad police officers have new uniforms--U.S.-style navy trousers and light blue shirts, replacing the old green military getups. "The reception has been incredible," Kerik says. "They want these new uniforms and new responsibilities. You can see their mind-set changing." But try telling that to the cops at the Bayaa police station in southwest Baghdad, a decrepit, filthy office so badly looted after the war that if local residents want to file a crime report, they have to write it down on their own paper. The dozen or so policemen there complain about...