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...least Ward is being candid. Call it a new twist on the 9/11 Truth Movement. He and his boss, Governor Paterson, should be lauded for resisting false promises about the country's largest construction site. Their predecessors probably would have addressed the current crisis in confidence about the unfinished (and in many places unstarted) job site with yet another fake ribbon-cutting ceremony...
Somebody tell that to Chris Ward...
...late. If construction can proceed apace, then Ground Zero can still be a showcase for American engineering, efficiency and ingenuity. Ward's candor is a good start...
...existing turbines repaired, and the third one put in place. In addition, some 150 miles (240 km) of power lines still need to be strung. It's an overwhelming task, but one that is essential for bringing development and thus security to the country. The dam, says Mark Ward of USAID, "is a critical element in our support for Afghanistan, because it will provide the electricity to drive private-sector growth in Helmand and Kandahar." If Helmand were a country, it would be the fifth largest recipient of USAID funding. The dam is its star project...
...paths. Both men dropped out after long undergraduate careers ("I crammed a four-year program into about eight years," Tindell jokes). Then, in 1978, both started businesses: Mackey, with his then girlfriend, opened a health-food store in Austin; Tindell, with a guy he had worked with at Montgomery Ward, opened a store in Dallas that sold containers...