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...that President Bush has thrown his support behind the 9/11 commission's proposal to empower a new intelligence chief to oversee most of the nation's intelligence operations, attention this week will focus on the man who has been nominated for the job it would supersede: director of the CIA. Yet Porter Goss, the Florida Congressman nominated by President Bush last month after the resignation of George Tenet, may well be auditioning for the bigger job too. Many Republicans and intelligence hands believe Bush is likely to promote Goss to the new post of national intelligence director...
...Masai as a race shall exist." But it lasted just seven years. In a 1911 treaty, the colonial governor grabbed the fertile lands of Laikipia and exchanged them for an expansion of the Masai's southern holdings. This treaty was challenged in court, but the suit was thrown out on a technicality. Since Kenya's independence in 1963, the Masai have watched as other tribes - notably those of sitting Presidents - have been granted land. Says John Oletingoi, of the Masai advocacy group Osiligi, "Do they want to tell us, 'Wait until a Masai is President, and then...
...whether Thomas can remain healthy is uncertain. During his freshman year, the Silver Springs, Md. product battled through the disappointment of making only the scout team—despite a departed coach’s hints that he would likely be thrown into the rotation on special teams—and frustration with his inability to effortlessly learn the defense to dazzle coaches and teammates in spring ball prior to his sophomore season, despite a nagging foot injury sustained during a banal sprint drill. That ailment, though it had failed to slow him in practice and had been repeatedly assessed...
...week after the Horned Frogs (4-2) went winless at the Hurricane Frances Classic, which was thrown together by Miami (Ohio) after the Gator Invitational was cancelled due to that particular spawn of the tropics, TCU entered the first game of the New England Challenge looking for its first victory...
...least remarked upon (and possibly least cared about) consequences of the Sept. 11 attacks is the utter disarray into which they have thrown the American novel. Used to be a literary novel was a taut, emotional family drama set in the Midwest about some sensitive kid coping with a crippling disease. Now books like that read like naive, escapist fantasies. These days it's supermarket thrillers that grapple with pressing geopolitical realities. Tom Clancy's world view has become more plausible and more relevant than Jeffrey Eugenides...