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That was the best, most informative and perhaps most useful piece of journalism I have seen in years. For far too long, Americans have uncritically accepted inaccurate arguments and sound-bite explanations for what is unquestionably the most serious problem facing our future. Environmental destruction, terrorism and a host of...
Chertoff, 51, has started off with big ambitions, general and specific both. He's ordered a full-scale, 60- to 90-day review of the Department of Homeland Security. He says he plans to define its mission then adjust its operations accordingly, without regard for the existing structure. That would...
When he was tapped to become the director of the institute, he said it became obvious that he needed a graduate degree. This necessity led him to the GSD in 1978 for a one year masters program and some “retooling.” Mayne said he remembers...
When he returned to Cornell, Wordsworth had suddenly lost its appeal. "I wanted to be involved," Zhu recalls. "I wanted to do something more useful than studying poetry written by a dead person." He took a leave from the doctorate program?never to return?shifted into law school and in...
IS IT USEFUL TO KEEP AMERICANS A LITTLE ON EDGE? There is a value to having people be a little bit more vigilant. As with the shoe bomber or some more recent occurrences I am aware of, plots have been stopped because somebody noticed something about the kinds of things...