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...This is the Big Easy, and sometimes we lay back a little too much. Get off your duffs." RAY NAGIN, mayor of New Orleans, after being sworn in for a second term, prodding residents to work harder to rebuild their Katrina-ravaged city rather than wait for outside help. Nagin's swearing-in came on the first day of the 2006 hurricane season...
...company disclosed Kappes' acceptance of the job in a London Stock Exchange regulatory filing Thursday, a day after Hayden was sworn in at the CIA. Beese said he believed Kappes was taken by surprise by Negroponte's announcement at the White House that he was recruiting Kappes to return to the CIA. The CIA did not confirm that Kappes' return has been finalized. "Director Hayden mentioned his intent to bring Steve Kappes back during his address to the workforce on Tuesday," says CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck. But Kappes would still have to clear the normal CIA and federal government...
...their doors to all but emergency services; private hospitals in some Delhi suburbs are following suit; trade unions have called for a morning of civil disobedience; and students at India's elite business schools are meeting to plan their own protests. In spite of the disruption, the government has sworn that it will not back down, regardless of who resigns or how many protest. Increased quotas, it claims, are the only way to foster social equality at the institutions that are driving the Indian economy forward...
...does Ramadi remain beyond the U.S.'s control? Part of the problem, many officers say, is that the troops' authority to act is constrained by politics. Soldiers cannot lock up suspected insurgents without first getting an arrest warrant and a sworn statement from two witnesses. And those who are convicted often receive jail sentences that are shorter than a grunt's tour of Iraq. "We keep seeing guys we arrested coming back out, and things get worse again," says an intelligence officer...
...officials are spinning the formation of Iraq's new government as a triumph of democracy and the first step toward stabilizing the civil war-ravaged country. But Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's cabinet, sworn in Saturday after five months of bickering and brinkmanship, has been greeted with a mixture of incredulity and skepticism by many Iraqis. "All that time spent in negotiations, and they couldn't fill the most important positions," says schoolteacher Salah Ubeidi, referring to three security-related posts that have been left vacant for now. "Why should we trust them to make the important decisions that...