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...pretty clear that Leonel Fernndez, 53, and now midway through his second, nonconsecutive term as President of the Dominican Republic, has the vision thing. When developers proposed the country's first modern port during his first term, "he got it right away--'We can be the Singapore of the Caribbean'--his words," recalls Dominican businessman Samuel A. Conde, who is looking to set up a regional logistics center...
...allows all voices to be heard without getting bogged down in discussions.“He brings a lot of momentum to the office,” says Kathy Spiegelman, Harvard’s Chief Allston Planner, of her boss.BUILDING FROM MASSPORT At his previous post at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Gordon overcame challenges to the $4.4 billion renovation of Logan Airport posed by lawsuits filed by neighbors and contractors.Gordon says that like his group at Harvard, his team at Massport focused on finances, not community relations, but acknowledges that his experience negotiating with local residents and city officials will...
...cost of the war abroad against investments at home. Had the U.S. taken the billions of dollars spent on the war and instead invested in a moon-shot-style program to gain energy independence, would such a war even have been necessary? What about investments in education and port security and in shoring up Social Security? I am no expert, but it would be nice to hear that debate from those who are. Jules Kopel-Bailey Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. Iraq is a strategically important country in the Middle East, a region whose resources the whole world depends upon...
...cost of the war abroad against investments at home. Had the U.S. taken the billions of dollars spent on the war and instead invested them in a moon-shot-style program to gain energy independence, would such a war even have been necessary? What about investments in education and port security and in shoring up Social Security? I am no expert, but it would be nice to hear those issues debated by those...
...opens around the country April 28, three days after its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, within view of the still gaping Twin Towers site. Greengrass's film is the first of a few big-studio projects dealing with 9/11. World Trade Center, the account of two Port Authority policemen trapped beneath the towers' charnel rubble, follows in August. James Vanderbilt's screenplay of Against All Enemies, Clarke's contentious memoir of his career tracking terrorists, which begins with frenetic scenes in the White House on 9/11, is floating around Hollywood. Paul Haggis, fresh from his Oscar upset with...