To fund the program adequately, $2 billion is needed, so a targeted program for vulnerable populations will continue, even while emergency needs continue to require about $1.5 billion each year.

The administration is taking a different strategy because it got a lot of flak last year for trying to decimate an existing program that's successful and has a lot of support.

The upshot is that US AID is making plans to eliminate about 17 countries out of 32 for the food aid programs.

We are confident we will have all of the resources necessary to effectively communicate the governor's message.

If any good comes from the catastrophe, it will be that it signaled the beginning of the media's reassertion of aggressive, in-your-face reporting, in which it confronts government wrongdoing, rather than just swallowing the government's public-relations handouts.

She will certainly bring a fresh face to the program. But a woman serving as sole anchor on an evening network newscast is so long overdue that it can hardly be regarded as making a powerful statement. ... CBS had a chance to revolutionize the evening news by totally remaking the show. Instead, they are putting a new person into an old, boring format.