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...officials expect that Adm. Bert Calland, a Navy SEAL, will step down in the same time-frame as Goss, leaving Negroponte and Hayden-likely with White House input-to pick a new deputy CIA director. Negroponte said at the White House that he is "seriously looking at" Stephen Kappes for that post-which would be a signal to the Agency's career workforce that one of their own would be returning to power after protesting Goss early on. The widely respected Kappes was named deputy CIA director for operations, in charge of the spy corps, under Director George Tenet...
What if avian flu strikes? State and local law enforcement, backed by the National Guard, may have to isolate or quarantine victims. The U.S. would not seal borders with Canada and Mexico; that would not stop a pandemic and "would have significant negative social, economic and foreign policy consequences," the plan says. The Administration may order the screening of people flying into the U.S., though carriers of the virus who show no symptoms could evade detection...
...selling Bush's policies, both behind the scenes and on camera. And though a Fox star becoming Bush's mouthpiece may sound like something out of a Tom Wolfe novel, even White House reporters seem enthusiastic, hoping that one of their own will pop the building's hermetic seal. (The last person to make the jump from reporter to White House press secretary was Ron Nessen during the Ford years...
Architectural traditionalists will be relieved to know that the new campus in Allston will not resemble “a wild spaceship.” But advocates of the red brick and white moldings traditionally associated with the Harvard seal may still be disappointed. “What does the new Harvard look like? It can’t be a wild spaceship, and it can’t be a replica of a four hundred-year-old building,” Christopher M. Gordon, the chief operating officer of Harvard’s Allston Development Group, told members...
...much to juggle? Gaiman, jet-lagged but engaged, rocks one hand from side to side in answer. "I'm pushing it," he admits. "Right now is the first time I've ever looked around and thought, 'That's not sane.'" Indeed, Gaiman's name has become such a seal of approval that he's just realizing he won't be able to accept all the projects he's offered. It wasn't always that way. Although The Sandman, Gaiman's 1989-96 series of comic books about a family of flawed immortals, has sold more than 7 million copies...