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Last week, while skies were tauntingly grey, my work colleagues ignored their sheltered office confines and persistently grumbled about the awful lack of summer. We collectively awarded Britain the title of worst climate in Europe, and this topic of conversation was deemed important enough to invade every exchange. Nevertheless, this week, when the heat wave finally struck, each sweat-stained commuter on the underground wore a pained expression while newspaper headlines lamented—never celebrated—the oppressive weather. Train passengers thought wistfully back to cooler days, and whined that their English bodies were not suited to such...
Panetta's lack of intelligence experience may well have been a factor, since he did not know to look for potential grenades like the secret program. "One of the concerns when he was appointed was that he would be the weak link inside the agency," says Amy Zegart, a national-security expert and professor of public policy at UCLA. But Zegart points out that Panetta isn't alone in his ignorance. "There are two big 'so whats' to the latest news," she says. "One is: What's going on in the Executive Branch that the CIA director doesn't even...
Confidence comes from discipline and training. I spent six years in the Marine Corps. Military training teaches you that there are four strengths: mental, emotional, physical and spiritual. What happens for most people, since they lack that discipline, they crack under pressure. That discipline and training kept me going...
...left out the elephant in the room: the patient. Most of what we do in health care now is treat diseases of lifestyle, including lack of exercise and unhealthy eating. We need more than mere reform; we need to restructure our priorities. Charles J. Huebner, M.D., PETOSKEY, MICH...
...Supreme Court's ruling that new haven, Conn., violated 20 white and Hispanic firefighters' rights by scrapping a promotions test that few black candidates passed leaves city officials in a bind. Lose the test and you punish those who aced it. Keep it and you risk leaving intact a lack of diversity at the fire department's senior levels...