• Accordingly, we believe the Bush Administration should immediately reconstitute the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), a senior-level panel that plays a crucial quality-control role for the U.S. intelligence community by reviewing and, where necessary, second-guessing the quality of its judgments.

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  • While the importance of culture and attitudes can't be denied, politics has played a deciding role in the few states passing gun control laws.

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  • This may in part be connected to a political strategy implemented by then-Rep. Rahm Emanuel in 2006, when he courted pro-gun Democrats as part of a successful effort to retake control of Congress, an experience he carried with him to his role as Obama's first White House chief of staff before being elected mayor of Chicago.

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  • In his former role as health secretary, Flavier put in place a model national immunization program and aggressively championed birth control programs despite opposition from the powerful Catholic Church.

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  • Factor in consumer comfort with iPhone-like touch control and suddenly businesses are looking at a new family of tools: TV sets that can play an interactive role in a firm.

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