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...sudden and unexpected resignation of Porter Goss as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on Friday highlights a long bureaucratic battle that's been going on behind the scenes in Washington. Ever since John Negroponte was appointed Director of National Intelligence a year ago and given the task of coordinating the nation's myriad spy agencies, he has been diluting the power and prestige of the CIA. From day one, he supplanted the CIA Director as the President's principal intelligence adviser, in charge of George W. Bush's daily briefing. Other changes followed, all originating in the law that...
President George W. Bush stunned Washington on Friday by accepting the resignation of CIA Director Porter J. Goss, and Republican sources told TIME that the White House plans to name his replacement on Monday: Air Force General Michael V. Hayden, who as Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence has been a visible and aggressive defender of the administration's controversial eavesdropping program. His nomination is sure to reignite the battle over the program on Capitol Hill, where one House Democrat promises "a partisan food fight" during the confirmation process...
...Wading into a tightly-packed, male-dominated music circle two years ago, the ladies of Plan B never disappointed and never looked back. “We don’t play to please the audience so much as we play to ourselves,” says Karima M. Porter ’07, the band’s lead singer. The band’s ideas about women’s position in society shapes its approach to music. “We don’t have any really happy lyrics,” Porter adds...
...qualifying was our only concern.” Harvard (5-2) lost to only Yale and Tufts, who will join Harvard at Nationals after finishing at 6-1. Yale won a tie-breaker over Tufts to take first place. Johnson, senior Vincent Porter and sophomore Kyle Kovacs skippered each of the three boats, while junior Emily Simon, senior Ruth Schlitz and sophomore Elyse Dolbec served as their respective crews. “We were fortunate that all three boats were really strong—it was important this weekend and it’ll be important in Charleston...
...tier regatta, and the team didn’t disappoint, engineering perhaps the most dominant performance of the spring season en route to an easy first-place finish.Harvard swept both divisions on its way to just 225 points, 26 ahead of second-place Boston College. Senior Vincent Porter shared time with captain Clay Johnson at the skipper position in A-division’s boat while senior Ruth Schlitz handled crew duties. The B-division saw sophomore skipper Kyle Kovacs and freshman crew Jon Garrity take first-place by a five-point margin over Georgetown, which faltered...