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...Howard's cocaine-fueled rocket fizzled, and the suits in Cincy, tired of his crazed professional and personal ways, bounced him in 1980. Though circulation climbed, eventually hitting 447,000, and advertising continued to grow, Scripps coasted. Cincinnati got complacent, refusing or declining, for example, to administer a kill shot to the Post, such as buying it before Singleton did, while parading faceless, small-thinking editors through the newsroom and importing ad execs who couldn't or wouldn't think local...
...Craig is the right person for the job and will ensure that the failures of the past are never repeated," President Barack Obama proclaimed after nominating W. Craig Fugate to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Figuring out what the President was alluding do isn't rocket science: the agency's inability to cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and George W. Bush's now-infamous accolade of then-FEMA director Michael Brown ("Heck of a job, Brownie!") have become touchstones of bureaucratic mismanagement. (See Obama's White House...
...terror attacks go in Pakistan, the damage was relatively minor. The 12 terrorists, divided into teams of two, were well-trained and armed with grenades, rocket launchers and automatic weapons. Like the Mumbai attackers, they carried backpacks filled with extra ammunition and explosives. But where the comparison doesn't work in scale and numbers - 165 died in the Mumbai attacks - the damage to the national psyche may be similar...
...Israel's security chiefs have been pushing its political leaders toward the negotiating table. They recognize that Syria is the one hostile party on the Arab side of the peace process that could possibly keep its end of a bargain and prevent the Golan from being turned into a rocket-launching pad into Israel. There will also never be anyone better in Syria for Israel to deal with than the secular Assad government. Syria may only get weaker as time passes: its economy is in bad shape; it has a history of problems with Islamist insurgent groups; and it faces...
...leaders appear to be in no mood to give up the Golan Heights. The "land for peace" paradigm of the Oslo accords has long fallen into disrepute in Israel, where skeptics point out that Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000 and from Gaza in 2005 only to face rocket fire from Hamas and Hizballah. After the failure of major Israeli military operations - the 2006 war in Lebanon and this year's Gaza incursion - to reverse the rising power of these groups, the Israeli electorate has swung to the right, choosing more hawkish leaders in the recent election. Aides to Israel...