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...that one of his pet ideas--expanding the national volunteer program known as AmeriCorps--was going to be appropriated by the President. In his address Bush would challenge each American to donate 4,000 hours of community service and would announce a new agency called U.S.A. Freedom Corps to marshal the effort. Freedom Corps builds on existing volunteer programs and creates new ones: the Citizen Corps, a kind of national Neighborhood Watch; and the Medical Reserve Corps, an army of first responders for terror attacks and other national emergencies...
Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2002 Stalin saw Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevski as the potential leader of a military coup. What's more, Tukhachevski publicly accused Stalin of losing the Polish campaign of 1920. Stripped of his office and appointed to command the obscure Volzhski military district in Kuibyshev, Tukhachevski was doomed ? but Stalin never acted openly. On May 13, 1937, he invited Tukhachevski to the Kremlin. The Party, said Stalin, still had confidence in the Marshal, and wished him success in his new command. On May 22, they arrested Tukhachevski in Kuibyshev and brought him to Moscow to be shot...
...Harvard buildings have been under close scrutiny by the Cambridge fire marshal, quite properly so, in my opinion, given the near-catastrophe that occurred recently in Eliot House,” Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrote in an e-mail. “For that and other reasons we are, therefore, fully in cooperation with the city in a joint effort to correct any violations of city fire codes...
...those 28,000 federal baggage screeners we were promised in the Aviation and Transportation Security Act? They aren't actually required to be on the job (fully vetted by federal employment standards) until November 2002. Until then, private firms maintain control of security hiring. And how about the air marshals we keep hearing so much about? Again, we're asked to be patient: the presence of an air marshal on every flight, as per Congressional action, won't happen for months, perhaps even a year. In the meantime, we're assured, there are marshals sprinkled on both long- and short...
...Black Hawk Down Ridley Scott's harrowing replay of a 1993 Somalian debacle for U.S. troops is pure cinema in action. In nearly two hours of relentless warfare (think of Saving Private Ryan without the slow bits), it shows how a director can marshal images and sounds, biography and geography, to create emotion pictures. With Gladiator, Hannibal and now this ultimate war movie, Ridley's on a roll...