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...order to really understand the CIA's angst, you have to remember that the Pentagon already takes more than 80% of the intelligence budget. It runs the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency and is in charge of satellites. In Afghanistan and Iraq, the Pentagon dwarfs the CIA in terms of people and money it has for spying. Which leaves the CIA with stations like Kabul serving as small but important citadels of independent civilian intelligence. (Read "The CIA's Silent War in Pakistan...
...French nuclear submarine arrived off the coast of Brazil to join the effort to locate the black box from Air France Flight 447 on Thursday, aviation experts stressed the necessity of recovering those cockpit recorders in order to learn what exactly brought down the Airbus A330 and the 228 people on board. In past inquiries into airline disasters, investigators have been able to figure out the cause by piecing together clues from the wreckage itself, sometimes without information from the black box. But after 10 days of searching, the authorities combing what's believed to be Flight 447's crash...
...waiver on the "rule of 75"--which stipulates that an employee's age plus service must equal 75--for retiree medical eligibility. He said that while most of the staff would leave the University by the end of June, some may remain for a few extra months in order to ensure a smooth transition.FAS Dean Michael D. Smith had announced in April that 153 out of 521 eligible staff in his school accepted the buyout packages--a slight discrepancy from the most recent figures possibly caused by the delayed delivery of packages, according to University spokesman John D. Longbrake...
...will start her job shortly after the University asked the Law School to cut 10 percent from its operating budget in order to cope with a precipitous fall in Harvard's endowment. And though much of the budget for the coming fiscal year will have been written by Jackson, the acting dean, tough economic times are likely to continue, and Harvard has said support from the endowment will fall still further in the following fiscal year...
...During the oral argument for the case, Sotomayor was an active questioner, but the decision eventually released by her three-judge panel was a brief, unsigned order. With little explanation, it affirmed the lower-court decision dismissing the firefighters' claim that the city discriminated against the white firefighters by throwing out the test. In a subsequent opinion, one of Sotomayor's colleagues and longtime mentors, Judge José Cabranes, criticized the panel for disposing in such a cursory way issues that were "indisputably complex and far from well-settled." Ricci and the others appealed the panel's ruling...