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[This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] ADMINISTRATION ANALYSIS Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 HIGH HOPES In 1979 Carter merges some 100 disconnected aid programs into a new agency in order to better coordinate U.S. disaster response. The organization proves unwieldy and ill-equipped to implement preventive measures...
The city where I was born and raised is still waiting for rescue. Three years ago this week, in the wake of the Katrina disaster, I returned there as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. What I saw upon arriving was a city that looked more like a Brazilian...
The opening work, How to Get into Medical School, Part I, is an achingly sweet love story featuring Fitzgerald and Ming, both preparing for entrance to the University of Toronto Medical School. The second installment of their tale - which, in a clever use of pacing, runs not consecutively but as...
The plane hit the ground, splitting in two and sending flames and smoke up into the sky, and a few survivors to the dusty ground. Rescue workers describe the scene as horrific. According to one who was leaving the airport yesterday evening, his boots covered in soot, "It was like...
French counter-terrorism officials take threats of exported violence to European soil seriously, but so far AQIM has waged its jihad largely within Algeria's borders. In July, for example, the group executed an attack targeting employees of a French company, killing one French engineer. A second blast detonated 30...