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...desk at the Oval Office after a day on the move. The string of catastrophes that led from the nation?s financial heart in New York to its military one at the Pentagon led a wary Bush from an education event in Florida to military bases in Louisiana and Nebraska before the presidential helicopter finally touched down on the White House lawn shortly before dusk...
...City, with its 200 agents, was located in the World Trade Center. The plane's TV monitors were tuned in to local news broadcasts; Bush was watching as the second tower collapsed. About 45 minutes after takeoff, a decision was made to fly to Offut Air Force Base in Nebraska, site of the nation's nuclear command and one of the most secure military installations in the country. But Bush and his aides didn't want to wait that long before the President could make a public statement. Secret Service officials and military advisers in Washington consulted...
...maps. Over the last ten years, of course, the Republicans have leveled the playing field considerably. Before last November?s election, the Democrats controlled only 19 governorships while the GOP controlled 29. Of the 49 bicameral state legislatures, Democrats controlled 19, Republicans held 17, while 13 others were split. (Nebraska has a unicameral non-partisan legislature...
...very hard to measure these things," says Samuel Walker of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, author of Police Accountability. He wrote a paper suggesting that the best way to analyze the traffic-stop activity of particular officers is to measure it against the work of other officers pulling comparable shifts. Then, presumably, those cops who disproportionately stop blacks or Latinos (or whites, for that matter) could be identified. Walker's approach seems sound, but almost no cities collect traffic-stop data on a cop-by-cop basis...
...should have seen the coaches from Nebraska when the announcer said over the loudspeaker that coming down to the last match Harvard could still upset Nebraska," said Picarsic. "That trip made our guys realize that as a team we could beat these top ten programs...