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LEVY: When I got here, there were 16 people reporting to the chancellor. There are now six. It's better to identify half a dozen people who are responsible than to leave it go, shall we say, in somewhat "collegial" a fashion. Another thing that I found invaluable is to come in with not a big team but two or three people who you could turn to. I know your reputation within your state is such that you will attract a lot of people willing to do that with you. That is a powerful place you should pivot...
...Lazio in her own voice (instead of capitalizing on the distance created by a negative ad or surrogate), the First Lady could be backing herself into a very uncomfortable scenario in which she's cast as the "angry" candidate while her opponent cruises to victory on a platform of somewhat nebulous (but largely unthreatening) moderation...
...that they don't believe at this stage that espionage was involved, the revelations certainly leave egg on the face of Energy Secretary Richardson, who ordered a dramatic tightening up of security after the Wen Ho Lee spying allegations were first aired last year. Los Alamos officials painted a somewhat chaotic picture of security arrangements around the classified material, telling CNN it was unclear whether the material had been inadvertently destroyed, stolen or lost, and that it was difficult to track down the missing data because record-keeping is so unorganized that was difficult to tell who might have legitimately...
...Debates over the political and military wisdom of missile defense become somewhat academic if the system simply doesn't work, as a number of critics and observers believe. And the impression that its technological viability remains unproven could help President Clinton out of a tight spot. Although he's backed the politically popular National Missile Defense plan, he's been unable to coax the Russians into renegotiating the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which forbids its deployment, leaving Washington facing the choice of backing off from the system or tearing up a key arms control agreement. When he first endorsed National...
While the University is somewhat hesitant to assess the overall quality of the SSI guards, they say they are more than pleased with their quantity...