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...Homeland Security Department itself, the impetus behind the biggest reorganization of the Federal Government in a half-century. The new department, first proposed by the President last July, aims to bring 22 agencies and 175,000 employees, from border agents to biologists, under a single bureaucratic roof--and to do it before al-Qaeda tries to mount another attack. But the department is only beginning to pick up momentum. Since it opened its doors Jan. 24, only three out of a possible 23 appointees to the new department have received confirmation; most have not even been named...
...much of her young daughters' lives, Tina Louise Cruz says, she sold drugs or sex to keep a roof over their heads. Each evening after the family had gulped down a meal of greasy fast food, Cruz would shut the door on her children and get high on methamphetamines. Then a new baby tested positive for drugs, and the older Cruz girls soon joined their infant sister in California's child protective services. But instead of moving the children from one foster home to a another, authorities in Contra Costa County gave Cruz a different option: move in with...
...almost certainly detonated while still on its bearer's back. The gruesome evidence for this scenario includes the bomber's remains?two legs cut off at the knees and a face sufficiently intact to allow police artists to draw a likeness?and spatterings of his blood on the roof...
...base for luminaries like Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Maggie Smith. Although the Old Vic has continued to attract top performers, it hasn't housed its own company since 1998 and has lacked a unifying creative vision. Its walls are decaying from damp and it needs a new roof - which means that if London's famously inclement weather sets in, some members of the Old Vic audience are as likely to experience an indoor drizzle as a memorable performance. Spacey will be looking to the Labour government to pitch in with funds that it has previously denied the theater...
Tracey is proud of his family, proud of the little boy who has an American flag sticking out of the roof of his little camouflage tent, who when he sees a gun at the toy store says, "Dad, can I get that weapon?" Even a child knows the drill, knows the words, and tonight in the living room, D'Artagnan sings them...