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...Congress or federal employees unions. "We view this as an opportunity to make real improvements," says a senior Administration official. A huge target: FEMA's parent, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). President Bush created the department in a hurry and under duress after the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, and officials say they hope to have a DHS 2.0 running well before he leaves office. --By Mike Allen
...still a war zone. Coalition forces have had their toughest year so far, with at least 51 U.S. combat deaths, including six last week. That brings the overall total since 2001 to 196 deaths and 601 wounded. The surge in violence comes at an inopportune time for the Pentagon, which wants to cut the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and turn over more of the combat burden to NATO, whose role is now limited to peacekeeping. Four days spent with Turner's Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, in the badlands of southern Afghanistan...
...Harvard Law School has long denied military recruiters access to its career office because the Pentagon will not sign the school’s nondiscrimination pledge. But the Law School announced last week that it would cooperate with the armed services, after the Pentagon threatened to cut more than $400 million in federal funds to Harvard...
...year old Rushing came to fame in Control Room, a movie critical of media coverage of the Iraq war as a military public affairs officer who increasingly questions how the war was being portrayed by the Pentagon. In the movie, Rushing is articulate and passionate in defending the troops and never directly criticizes the war. And his honesty draws viewers to his side-he describes his different reactions to seeing on Al Jazeera images of Iraqi casualties one evening and dead U.S. soldiers the next. "It upset me on a profound level that I wasn't bothered as much...
...part of national security and how to deal with Arab world. The network has long been the only one in the region with a point-counterpoint approach, where many others are 'point-point-point.' Al Jazeera, for example regularly has Israeli spokespeople on." Rushing says the State Department and Pentagon have both shown interest in working with the new network...