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...problem prior to Sept. 11 was structural. Since 1986, representatives of a number of national security organizations and the FBI have worked together daily in the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, where information from abroad is shared, integrated, analyzed and acted upon. Before Sept. 11, there was no comparable formal organization for working-level contact among the domestic agencies of government--or between them and the national security agencies. While there appear to have been a few dots to connect, there was no effective mechanism for those connecting lines to cross domestic and national security boundaries...
...York City, passions are running high. Seven landowners share the 400-acre site, which was long ago strip-mined for coal. In March a bill was introduced in Congress to designate it a national memorial, which would bring a much needed infusion of funds to the community. A formal planning committee will be named in the next few months. The announcement can't come soon enough for the locals, who find the whole process maddeningly bureaucratic. Meanwhile, a garishness is sweeping into town. Flight 93 trinkets are popping up everywhere, including Ida's Country Store on Main Street, and visitors...
...course, she has her critics. Mark Leonard, co-author of the pamphlet Modernising the Monarchy, argues that "there is a perfectly rational case for simple abolition." Indeed. The Queen's formal powers, which include picking the Prime Minister and dissolving Parliament, are flagrantly undemocratic. Some 68% of Britons think the royal family is out of touch with ordinary people, according to a MORI poll; only 39% believe the monarchy will last another 50 years. But that is not the only conundrum built into the Queen's role. She keeps her job only if she doesn't exercise...
...Born to a poor Uzbek farming family, Dostum had little formal education and worked in the natural-gas fields near Shibarghan before joining the military during communist rule in Afghanistan. By the mid-1980s he was in command first of a militia battalion, then of a division. His big break came with the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan in 1988-89. As the troop convoys headed home and the rebel mujahedin sharpened their knives, Dostum and his Soviet-funded army of tough Uzbek and Turkmen irregulars emerged as the only real mobile outfit the communist regime of President Najibullah could count...
...deal would have required complete destruction of the warheads; it is almost inconceivable that America’s security situation could change so drastically as to necessitate the redeployment of thousands of nuclear missiles. It was promising, however, that Bush acceded to Putin’s request for a formal treaty instead of an informal agreement—this should prevent the former Cold War rivals from reversing course...