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After that, you can take the cable car back toward the Mississippi River and transfer to the St. Charles Avenue line south to the Ogden Museum, home of the largest collection of Southern-themed art in the U.S. (It's a dense city; from downtown, it won't take more than 10 minutes to get there.) The museum's five floors narrate Southern history through paintings and photography. A highlight is a painting called Trinity,which depicts Jesus flanked by two other radiant "gods" of the South, Elvis Presley and Robert...
...cardsnot only at their own outlets but also through grocery stores and shopping malls as well as over the Internet. The newly reopened toy store F.A.O. Schwarz is even offering a $100,000 gift card. Some of the cards include ATM access. Some let holders reload them; others permit transfer of funds to other cards or individuals. In one of the latest incarnations, at last count about 1,000 companies give their workers electronic-payroll cards to access accounts holding their wages, bonuses and commissions. Last year prepaid-card sales were $45 billion, and in 2006 sales are expected...
...good thing. He has hired Porter Goss to achieve both goals at the CIA. He has also issued a series of memos that begin to lay out his vision: one supports a 50% increase in the number of covert operatives--an excellent idea. Another seems to support the transfer of operational control over the use of covert force from the CIA to the Pentagon. That may not be a bad idea, either, but it feeds a fear among some intelligence professionals that with the CIA in tatters, power may shift, subtly, toward the Secretary of Defense. "The militarization of intelligence...
...goal is mainly about knowledge transfer, to learn as well as understand the intricacies of the region while sharing ideas,” said John Neffinger, Director of Communications of the Belfer Center. “It’s a great opportunity for the Kennedy School to assist leading regional actors in their efforts to improve public administration in the region...
There is not much that can be said against free trade in the vast majority of cases. It increases incomes. It facilitates the transfer of not only money, but values—look to the countries where the U.S. has enforced embargoes and those with which we have traded freely. It is hard not to think that trade must have something to do with why, for example, we have better relations with China than Cuba. Furthermore, raising these incomes tends to strengthen governments, who can then make the transition to paying their civil servants well and establishing better institutions. With...