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...leader in a time of national crisis. Then, silence. For the past three weeks no Cabinet officer has been seen less by the public. The ever suspicious press started asking questions. "Everyone wants to know where you are," an aide told Cheney last week. The Vice President offered a thin smile: "Don't tell them...
Black mourning banners still wave across the steep gorges, pockmarked villages and invisible redoubts that make up the thin sliver of Afghanistan not conquered by the Taliban. They honor the "Lion of Panjshir," Ahmed Shah Massoud, revered commander of the anti-Taliban forces, assassinated two days before the attacks on the U.S. Yet the loose collection of Northern Alliance fighters now calling themselves the United Front, who have doggedly held their narrowing ground for five years, are filled with high hope. American bombs are coming. America will help them win the victory they couldn't win themselves...
...those quietly successful Swiss firms that make steady money and precision products--in its case, medical implants from teeth to knees. But then Medica burst into the news in the worst way. In December it recalled 40,000 titanium hip replacements that had been tainted during manufacture with a thin film of oil--just enough to prevent some patients' bones from bonding to them. The recall forced more than 2,500 to endure a second painful operation to replace faulty implanted joints; 2,000 more are expected. Most are in the U.S., so of course the result...
...agency must have final authority and accountability. With more than 40 federal agencies now sharing responsibility for domestic security, accountability is spread too thin and bureaucratic gaps are too common. A coordinator who organizes interagency task forces and working groups has neither authority nor accountability. He or she cannot order that anything be done. Beltway skeptics talk about the inevitable bureaucratic resistance to our proposal for a new agency. I, for one, would like to hear one Cabinet officer argue that it is more important to protect his or her bureaucratic prerogative than it is to protect the people...
...leader in a time of national crisis. Then, silence. For the past three weeks no Cabinet officer has been seen less by the public. The ever suspicious press started asking questions. "Everyone wants to know where you are," an aide told Cheney last week. The Vice President offered a thin smile: "Don't tell them...