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As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."
"Absolutely indispensable! An important resource in the struggle." Ken Loach, film director "Your book is just what we need at time when the American Left gets no coverage in the world's press and yet remains the hope for America and the world." Tony Benn, President, Stop the War Coalition "[This book] challenges the simplistic perception of Americans as SUV-driving, war-loving couch potatoes. There's a movement for peace and justice and this book gives it a voice." Mickey Z., writer With contributions by five Nobel Peace Prize winners, former government officials, scholars, religious leaders, journalists, activists, and prominent cultural figures, the documentary film XXI Century explores A...
In light of increasing economic and international threats, military operations must be examined with a critical eye in terms of process design, management, improvement, and control. Although the Pentagon and militaries around the world have utilized industrial engineering (IE) concepts to achieve this goal for decades, there has been no single reso
When President George W. Bush stood on the decks of the U.S.S. Lincoln in May 2003 and announced the victorious end to major combat operations in Iraq, he did so in front of a huge banner that proclaimed "Mission Accomplished." American forces had successfully removed the regime of Saddam Hussein with "rapid decisive operations"-and yet the United States was unprepared to effectively replace that regime. Gordon Rudd's excellent history reveals why in stark detail. Between the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and the creation of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) that May, the Allied forces struggled to plug the governance gap created by the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime. Plugging t...
Witnesses: Rudy de Leon, Dep. Sec. of Def.; Tommy Franks, Jr., U.S. Army, Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command; Randall West, U.S. Marine Corps, Sr. Advisor to the Dep. Sec. of Def. for Chem. & Biol. Protection; J. Jarrett Clinton, Public Health Serv., 1st Assist. to the Assist. Sec. of Def. for Health Affairs; Anna Johnson-Winegar, Dep. Assist. Sec. of Def. for Chem. & Biol. Def.; Gaston Randolph, Jr., U.S. Army, Dir., AVIP; Fuad El-Hibri, CEO, Bioport Corp., accomp. by Robert Myers, Chief Scientific Officer, & Robert Kramer, CFO, Bioport Corp.; April Stephenson, Chief, Policy Programs Div., Defense Contract Audit Agency; & Kathryn Zoon, Dir., Center for Biologics Evaluation & Res., FDA