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RESIGNING. TOM RIDGE, 59, as the first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security; TOMMY THOMPSON, 63, as Secretary of Health and Human Services; and JOHN DANFORTH, 68, as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Ridge's nominated replacement is BERNARD KERIK, 49, the plainspoken former New York City police commissioner who helped guide the city during the Sept. 11 attacks and was a vocal supporter of George W. Bush's re-election...
Directed and scripted by Rebecca R. Kastleman ’05 and produced by Katherine J. Thompson ’05, themedea is an original adaptation of Heiner Müller’s 1989 prose poem “Medea Material,” which in turn is an avant-garde recreation of Euripides’ ancient tale...
...lone claim to superpower status, they note, and refreshing Russia's aging nuclear force would be a way of trying to hang on to that position. "Their missile won't work," says a Pentagon adviser, "and neither does our shield." --By Paul Quinn-Judge. With reporting by Mark Thompson...
Astheflu-vaccineshortagebegan, Canada quickly emerged as a potential life buoy. Ujjal Dosanjh, Canada's Health Minister, personally phoned Tommy Thompson, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, and offered to share whatever surplus Canada had to help meet the 48-million-dose shortfall. "I assured him that if there was anything we could do to assist our American friends, we would be happy to do that," Dosanjh told TIME. But it wasn't long before Dosanjh was spelling out the limits of what his country could do. "Canada cannot be the drugstore of the United...
...where they are 60% to 70% cheaper, unless the U.S. can guarantee that they are safe. Critics call the Bush policy a delaying tactic designed to protect drug companies' profits. The federal Task Force on Drug Importation must submit its report on safety by Dec. 8. When it does, Thompson could authorize reimportation, a move that would appease those who clamored for it during the campaign. Drugmakers, meanwhile, trying to block an end run around their U.S. business, have warned that a flood of Canadian drugs would stifle innovation by bringing in Canadian-style price controls. Experts...