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...daily challenges," he writes in Damage Control: Why Everything You Know About Crisis Management Is Wrong. The field traces its recent roots to 1982, when seven people died from taking cyanide-laced Tylenol pills, and the manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson, quickly recalled 30 million bottles of Tylenol and introduced tamper-proof packaging. That storied recovery showed corporate America the power of getting it right in a crisis...
Graham got his battle testing in a military courtroom, first at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina and then as a chief prosecutor for the Air Force in Europe during the 1980s. He insists that Bush's proposal to tamper with the interpretation of the Geneva Conventions and put detainees on trial without letting them see all the evidence against them would have far-reaching consequences because it would invite future enemies to do the same, or worse, to Americans they capture. That argument has drawn strong support from such powerful voices as Colin Powell, former Chairman...
...Some sectors of the population are antsy to see opposition representation in a government that is almost completely run by officials loyal to Chavez. The opposition also widely complains that irregularities in the voter registry could help the government tamper with election results. Still, with 55 percent of Venezuelans expecting to vote for Chavez, many pro and anti-Chavez Venezuelans alike take it for granted that he will win another six years in power. But then again, this is a country that over the last four years has seen a failed coup d'etat, two-month oil strikes...
...know whether the manifests are accurate or not when the ships are loaded," says Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, who has sponsored legislation to strengthen maritime security. "The containers are not tracked as they come overseas," Murray adds. "Somebody could divert them for a day and tamper with them. There are just numerous holes that we need to address." Until they do, critics and security experts say it may not matter who is actually managing the ports on a day-to-day basis...
...finally shaking things up. Over the past month Githongo, a fastidious diary keeper, has leaked to the bbc and to Kenyan newspapers a timeline of his investigation into a company, Anglo Leasing and Finance, that in 2003 was awarded a contract worth tens of millions to produce tamper-proof passports for Kenya's immigration department. But it didn't produce passports or, in fact, exist beyond a British address that Britain's Serious Fraud Office says it is now investigating; the company was, Githongo says, nothing more than the fictitious creation of a few senior Kenyan government officials and their...