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...spotlight—and transport him to jail in an unmarked vehicle. Although it may be difficult in this era of 24-hour cable news to withhold information from the media, if President Bush was able to fly secretly to Iraq for Thanksgiving, this hardly seems too complex a task. In actuality, there can be little doubt that the whole event was consciously choreographed to appease the myriad local, national, and even international television crews filming the landing at Hanscom Air Force Base. It’s truly a shame that government officials are hard at work spending...
...clumsy. Promises were broken or brazenly reclassified. The ministerial departure lounge attracted frequent flee-ers. But its fat parliamentary majority meant the Howard government did not lack the appetite for transformation or a fight. Inheriting a fiscal mess, the new government's fixers appeared to relish the task of taking money away from universities, welfare recipients and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Taxpayers' assets were passed on for sale to merchant bankers, government debt was shredded, and a shareholder democracy was born. When Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith launched an assault on the waterfront unions, there was a certain bloodlust...
...around the Big Easy, that's the other big if. Task Force Guardian is the group within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers charged with making short-term repairs to the levee system by the start of storm season. To date, the Corps has signed nearly $400 million in repair contracts. All around town its crews can be seen working to restore levees, fix flood walls and install interim floodgates and bypass pumps. But for months the mantra around New Orleans has been that in the longer term, the city must have more--namely storm protection sufficient to resist...
...need a partner to do this. So we approached Harvard.” This year marks the 25th anniversary of the disease’s discovery, as well as the 10th anniversary of antiretroviral therapy. Hildebrand has documented the HIV/AIDS epidemic worldwide for around 20 years, a task that has taken him to 39 countries and produced 23 documentaries about AIDS, the filmmaker said yesterday. Dr. Paul E. Farmer, Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Medical School and the founder of the Boston-based Partners in Health, an organization that offers health care to the poor, said that...
...have proved fruitful.“It seems that bio-science is one of the industries that Boston wants to compete in and it seems like a terrific advantage that we have somebody with deep pockets and the intellectual resources to do it,” said Harvard-Allston Task Force chair Ray Mellone. “It captured the imagination a bit.”The 17-member Task Force, composed of Allston residents appointed by Menino, is charged with reviewing Harvard’s expansion plans as they are presented to the City. Before the University can proceed...