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...their hope into rebuilding and then in a year we’ll re-evaluate, that’s no plan at all.” There must be more governmental guidance in relocation at the expense of some personal choice in where to settle. Referring to a RAND Corporation study, Joseph C. Canizaro, the primary author of the commission’s proposal, told The Times that the hurricane “could spell the death of more than one New Orleans neighborhood” as it is expected that by 2009 “the city would have...
Critics of the air-marshal program cite the shooting as evidence that the agents should not be armed in the first place. "The idea that putting a gun on an airplane makes the public safer--that simply isn't true," says Kristen Rand, legislative director of the Violence Policy Center, a nonprofit gun-control group. An investigation is being conducted by the Miami-Dade police. But right now, the one person taking blame is Alpizar's wife. "He didn't want to get on the plane," passengers heard Buechner say after the shots were fired. "My husband is dead...
...over tactics and ideology. At the same time, the letter also indicates an acknowledgment by al-Zawahiri that the al-Qaeda hierarchy has been reordered. "It wasn't the letter of an overall commander pulling the choke chain of a subordinate," says Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert with the Rand Corp. think tank in Washington, who believes it is genuine. "It was diplomatic, cajoling, flattering and in essence sucking up to [al-Zarqawi...
...broke towards Fisher on a breakaway, but his point-blank shot was rebuffed by the Bobcats’ rookie goalie, who notched 19 saves through two periods. The Crimson skaters “weren’t happy losing to us five weeks ago,” Bobcats coach Rand Pecknold said, “and they came ready to play.” “Harvard had the better intensity, and they won most of the battles, and we just didn’t generate a lot of shots on Daigneau,” he added...
Strategically, however, any U.S. withdrawal would have to be conducted "from a position of strength," says Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Rand. Al-Qaeda has always believed Americans lack patience and stamina when "the going gets rough," Hoffman says. "If the U.S. is seen as being stampeded out of the violence in Iraq, that will only be waving a red flag at the terrorists." But coming up with an exit strategy for Iraq--without appearing to run away--won't be easy...