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...dream about playing in the National Hockey League," says defenseman Trevisani, 23, a former Canadian junior standout and son of an Italian immigrant. "I was a good player but I wasn't an unbelievable player. In Canada, you have to be unbelievable." Not so in countries like Italy that lack the sport's traditions. But hockey's crossover nationals are hardly anomalies in Torino, where plenty of athletes are competing under the flags of second or adopted homelands. The practice is so common in both Winter and Summer games that International Olympic Committee ( i.o.c.) President Jacques Rogge blasted some...
...Ryan’s 18-word resolution reads: “That the Faculty of Arts and Sciences continues to lack confidence in the leadership of Lawrence H. Summers...
...majority of the faculty believe that having the right kind of person will work, then the rest should step back and let the President choose whom he will. If a majority of the faculty no longer believe that anyone could work successfully with the president, then that is a lack of confidence...
...President and have frequent access to his staff; Brown himself had initially gotten to know Bush through his friend and predecessor at FEMA, Joe Allbaugh, Bush's chief of staff as governor and 2000 campaign manager. Another is used by those who may have a lofty title, but lack the access-and, as a result, often lack the ability to get things done. FEMA reports to Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and some Senators, like Democrat Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, found it hard to believe Brown could not recall if he had spoken with Chertoff on that first night...
...During the months leading up to Katrina, it was becoming clear to Brown that the White House wanted him to make his requests through Department of Homeland Security, a change he resisted. "I was an infighter," he told the committee. He was frustrated with what he saw as a lack of focus on the threat posed by natural disasters, saying that FEMA had become a "stepchild in the department." If a terrorist had blown up the levees, he told the senators, he believed the DHS response would have been more aggressive. But after he testified, two officials at DHS suggested...