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...operations, from the Pentagon to the FBI. "In 1998 [he] declared war on terrorism, and most of the intelligence community ignored him," says former Senate Intelligence chairman Bob Graham. Critics say the situation has not improved much since the Sept. 11 attacks: the FBI has been slow to reform its internal-communications system, while the Defense Department has gone off in its own direction, trying to carve out new propaganda and analysis shops that would compete with...
...Khomeini, was released from house arrest in the city of Qom. Montazeri, who is in his 80s, was confined in November 1997 after he criticized the authority of Iran's conservative Supreme Leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Montazeri is a rallying point for those disaffected with the slow pace of reform. On his release, he told his supporters he would "continue to talk about issues and to act." See Also: Islamic Republic in Transition...
Harvard filed arguments in federal court yesterday disputing that the conduct of two University affiliates undermined a U.S. government-funded economic reform program in Russia and should cost the University $102 million in penalties...
...their intended purposes. These conditions are ripe for potentially fraudulent applications or funding for non-existent events, and this appearance of loose financial controls should be ended immediately. Proposals that have surfaced to ask groups for their receipts, or to convene an audit committee are promising, but this reform calls for more swift and decisive action from council leaders...
...laid out a point-by-point platform for legislative reform of tax, education, health care and civil rights policies...