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Senate Democrats, many of whom initially opposed the Republican Congressman's nomination, don't expect to go in for the kill during this week's hearings, as they see little chance of derailing Goss's candidacy. But they plan to question him on such matters as what reforms he feels the CIA needs and whether his experience as a former CIA officer and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee equips him to manage the $40 billion intelligence community. They are also likely to ask him about a controversial reform bill that Goss floated in June that would have allowed...
...Jean-Louis Py, who last month took charge of NATO's 10,000-strong peacekeeping mission there. Now there are roughly twice as many European troops deployed outside the E.U. and NATO countries as there were 10 years ago, according to Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform in London. Most of them are doing peacekeeping work under the NATO banner. "We think it's better to have NATO than ephemeral coalitions," Alliot-Marie told TIME on the way home from her visit. "NATO has a habit of working together, and because we believe in it we want...
...will enable the College to determine which organizations have become “defunct,” in which case the College will contact the members and work to reform the group, McLoughlin said...
...looking beyond the three-year election cycle? Although some may grumble about the 10% goods and services tax introduced in 2000, it was a necessary adjustment and modernization of the tax system that required bureaucratic toil and a willingness to take political risks, but not great courage or imagination. Reforming wage bargaining and introducing user-pays for education and health across the board have been done gradually. A fairly benign, mainly symbolic, deal such as the Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. is a metaphor for the Howard-Costello way: a second-order reform is sold with five-star trimmings...
Howard and Latham speak often about the future and ten-year plans. But their obsession is with the present. In truth, there is a great deal left to do. Too often, the government has chosen the low, quiet road to reform; the Opposition has trimmed its radical urges in hopes of creeping back into power. The tax system remains a mess; it's neither fair nor simple nor good for the economy. Investment in the future is miserly. Students should be getting better teaching and facilities for their $A100,000 university degrees. The spread of broadband - which will...