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...thing, he is not short on perseverance. In the face of strong opposition from pork-hungry lawmakers, he has repeated the obvious but politically radical notion that you should focus resources and money on cities most at risk of attack. He said it when he started in 2005. Repeated it in 2006. And in 2007, 77% of DHS grants are being doled out using a risk-based formula, up from zero in 2005. Chertoff has also backed off from the color-code hysterics, advocating a less reactive, more strategic approach to security. One of his major efforts...
...largest role in protecting Chertoff's job. He was able to sidestep the firestorm after Katrina largely because there was a fall guy, FEMA chief Michael Brown, to take the heat. Without Brown, it could have been Chertoff's head that rolled. In addition, the U.S. hasn't been attacked since 9/11. Most experts acknowledge that even with the best security preparations, there's still a risk of attack. Our number hasn't come up again since Chertoff took office...
Some of the connections are provocative. Take Oswald. His father Robert died of a heart attack in August 1939. Lee, born two months later, spent much of his first three years with Lillian and Charles Murret, his aunt and uncle, in New Orleans. In April 1963, while looking for a job in New Orleans, he stayed with the Murrets. Charles Murret was a bookmaker in a gambling operation run by Marcello, and for a few months Oswald allegedly collected bets for his uncle. Marcello and other New Orleans gangsters thus may have been aware that the much publicized former Marine...
...lieutenant colonel named Bruce Antonia told Odierno about preparing to attack the Buhritz neighborhood a few nights earlier when he was approached by local Sunni inusurgents-members, they said, of the 1920 Revolutionary Brigades-who were streaming out of the neighborhood. "They said they'd been fighting al-Qaeda but had run out of ammunition and asked us to supply them. We told them, 'Show us where AQ is and we'll fight them.'" The insurgents did and the neighborhood was cleared...
...arteries, on the other hand, are more likely to be stiffer, and already burdened with fatty deposits and plaques; in the presence of these plaques, it turns out, estrogen may even have the reverse effect, causing them to destabilize and rupture, leading to blocked-up arteries and a heart attack...