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...Cabinet Secretary (Ridge, by contrast, is basically a White House staff member). This sort of idea--consolidating the agencies that oversee the border, for example--has been kicking around since at least as far back as Al Gore's reinventing-government project of the mid-1990s. But the question that will be debated over the next few months is whether Bush's proposal goes too far, creating a bureaucratic Dr. Frankenstein's monster too unwieldy to do its job, or not far enough, shuffling job titles and office space without fixing the structural and institutional flaws that make Americans feel...
...addition to chairing the all-party peace negotiations in Northern Ireland in the mid-1990s, Mitchell was President Clinton’s envoy to lead a fact-finding committee on the faltering Middle East peace process...
Note: Exact boundaries and status of some recently designated provinces, including Nuristan (ca. 1991) and Khowst (ca. 1995), remain unclear. Several provincial capitals were changed during the mid-1990s...
...three-year stint on Capitol Hill with the Physicians for Social Responsibility, a lobbying group advocating the end of nuclear proliferation, ended in the mid-1990s. And Ellsberg finally began to work on his long-anticipated memoirs of the Vietnam and Pentagon Papers years...
...Zubaydah, whose real name is Zayn al-Abidin Mohammed Husayn, grew up comfortably middle-class. In his teens he became interested in Islamic extremism, drawn there by the Palestinian cause, and by age 18 he was in Gaza as a member of Islamic Jihad. In the mid-1990s he moved to Afghanistan, and soon Osama bin Laden placed him in the border town of Peshawar, Pakistan. There, Zubaydah acted as a kind of semi-permeable membrane, passing on to al-Qaeda volunteers he deemed acceptable. As a cover, he posed as a honey merchant but nonetheless attracted notice from...