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...stage and you’ve got a sold-out crowd at the Roxy in L.A. or a sold-out crowd of 5,000 in Finland—you kind of have to take it seriously.”OZZY OZZY OZZYAbsolved of my hypocrisy, I began the difficult task of searching for my song. Concerning song choice, Jung advises aspiring air guitarists to look for inspiration in the man he calls “our lord and shepherd”: Ozzy Osborne.No less difficult was the selection of my stage name. I sought a name that would transform...
...TIME has also obtained the report of a task force set up by Energy Secretary Bodman to examine some of the security issues in his department. Given the stakes involved in protecting nuclear secrets in a post-9/11 world, the report makes uncomfortable reading: It details not only more extensive drug use among staff at Los Alamos, but describes a systematic lack of accountability and weaknesses in the safeguards surrounding nuclear secrets...
...Secretary Bodman's task force report shows, however, that security problems were not limited to Quintana or Los Alamos. Investigators examined more than 450 security clearances issued over 12 months beginning in June 2001, the period in which Quintana had been under review, and found two other cases in which clearances were granted to people with "indications of prior drug use within the month prior to the clearance being granted." A further 35 cases involved drug use within the year prior to requesting a security clearance...
...Secretary Bodman, who will testify Friday April 20 before a congressional oversight subcommittee on security issues, has already taken a number of steps of his own to deal with the problem. He not only commissioned the task force report and reviewed the results of a DOE inspector general investigation, but in January fired the department's top official in charge of nuclear security in response to the latest Los Alamos and earlier incidents. As Bodman put it: "Unauthorized removal of the classified material from the Lab marks a significant breach of security protocol and of the public trust. Unfortunately...
Theda Skocpol is the current dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and was the chair of the 2006-07 FAS Task Force on Teaching and Career Development, which offered ideas to support ongoing curricular reforms...