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...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...
...Since then he has presided over dynamic economic growth and, more recently, doubled pensions. Despite enjoying Russian President Vladimir Putin's energetic support, Yanukovych has seemed out of his depth in the current political crisis. At one point last week, he pledged to support a free press and transfer some presidential powers to the legislature. Soon after, he denounced Yushchenko for trying to mount a "coup." But if his frequent calls to resolve the election dispute without violence are to be believed, perhaps Yanukovych really has left his troubled past behind...
...freshmen Supriya Balsekar and Jennifer Blumberg are both top-15 intercollegiate players, while sophomore transfer Kyla Grigg, the intercollegiate No. 6, will play at No. 1 for the Crimson this season. A transfer from the University of Calgary with extensive experience at the junior level, Grigg will help challenge a stacked field of Ivy and national competition...
Sophomore Noelle Bassi, ineligible last season following her transfer from Tennessee, again proved she was more than worth the wait. She handily captured both the 200-yard butterfly and individual medley events...
...less than the 25% it needs to be able to block strategic company decisions. BP, by contrast, whose contract was signed eight months before Khodorkovsky's arrest, has a 50% share in its Russian joint venture. (The company's Russian minority shareholders are howling because BP uses a complicated transfer-pricing method that allows the parent company, instead of subsidiaries, to book the lion's share of profits.) "That's a deal we won't see repeated," says Jonathan Stern of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. "The climate now is for strategic minority investments by foreign companies in Russian...