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...have profound respect for Condoleezza Rice and her accomplishments as George W. Bush's National Security Adviser. Whether she should have been more proactive in addressing terrorist threats during the months before 9/11 is open to debate. U.S. citizens have a right to know, however, what went wrong and how future attacks might be prevented. Whatever the outcome of the investigation, one can say that although the Bush Administration went all the way to Iraq in search of weapons of mass destruction, it failed to [recognize] the fatal errors committed right [there] in the White House. Srinivas Balla Fairfax...
...Setting the Record Straight Not The Only One In our report on Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush's National Security Adviser [April 5], we said Brent Scowcroft was the only person to serve as National Security Adviser under two Presidents. McGeorge Bundy and Henry Kissinger also served as National Security Adviser for two Presidents: Bundy under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and Kissinger under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford...
...living in India at the time and saw how the show changed people's lives. Overnight, Guinness mania swept the country as ordinary Indians, determined to achieve immortality, grew record-busting mustaches, walked vast distances with milk bottles on their heads, ate light bulbs and wrote poems on rice grains. Among those persistent enough to make it into the book was Shridhar Chillal, who still holds the record for the longest fingernails, at a combined 6.15 meters. He told me he wanted to saw the nails off but would do so only if someone paid him $200,000. ("I haven...
...chief of counterterrorism said he wished he had 500 analysts tracking the army of Osama bin Laden in those days--"instead of two." Or that few of the 56 FBI field offices around the country could remember receiving any of the special alarms that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice says she ordered up before the Twin Towers came crashing down. Had Americans known then that so many worries and so many warnings over so many years had produced so little response in the government agencies assigned to protect us, the future would have looked far scarier on Sept. 12 than...
...Central and Eastern Europe. On the street, there is a widespread belief that E.U. accession will drive prices way up. Panic buying and hoarding started with salt and sugar in the Baltics; Poland followed with sugar, construction materials and cars. In the Czech Republic, it has been sugar, rice and, of all things, haircuts, with people pre-paying their trips to the salon. What's behind the hysteria? E.U. accession will bring about changes in taxation, tariffs and price support. This means that the price of dairy products in Poland, for example, could rise 10-30% and that...