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Last Tuesday the White House circulated an Executive Order outlining Ridge's powers. Senior Administration sources tell TIME the draft order will not give Ridge direct control over the counterterrorism budgets in other agencies, which could be key to shaping the antiterror bureaucracy. Moreover, Pentagon sources say Downing, word of whose likely appointment was leaked by Bush aides more than a week ago, has had second thoughts about taking the job because the powers he expected to be granted have been trimmed. The new office, says a senior Administration aide, "is being set up for failure...
...looks as if Ridge won't have much more authority than Clarke did. Ridge, like Clarke, won't be able to force agencies to spend more on homeland defense. The draft Executive Order circulated last week says the agencies will "retain" that control. Ridge will be able only to coordinate activities and coax other agencies into spending money on his cause. And instead of one person overseeing the fight against terrorism at home and abroad, there will now be two. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was willing to let Ridge run the war in the U.S. against terrorists...
Coalition member Joshua Feldman, a junior at Emerson College, spoke about student response to what he called a “cycle of violence.” Although the coalition has taken no official stance on how students should react to the possibility of a draft, Feldman said he would refuse to fight...
...prepare, Gusmorino has been following the same program as student Commencement speakers.Yesterday afternoon, he read his latest draft to Hunt. He has also been working on his delivery with Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who advised him on intonation and gave other “nitty-gritty” oratorical suggestions, as well as with a voice coach at the American Repertory Theater...
...last year, said it lost another $40 million from interruptions in scheduled flights to the U.S. "There was definitely a fear of flying," said Swissair spokesman Jean-Claude Donzel. "We don?t know when we can expect the turnaround." To cope with the crisis Swissair was forced to draft plans for its second restructuring in five months. The airline will now concentrate on higher-margin business travel in Europe and scale back its long hauls by 25%. Swissair said it would cut 3,000 jobs at its catering subsidiary, Gate Gourmet, and merge with its regional airline Crossair into...