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Founding members include Shorenstein Center Director Alex Jones , Geoffrey Cowan of USC , John Lavine of Northwestern , Nicholas Lemann of Columbia and Orville Schell of Berkeley . Congress is reluctant to be portrayed as failing to support troops in the field ; while they will criticise , they will not block Bush ’ s plan . One of the first votes facing the new Democratic-controlled Congress will be another " supplemental " budget request for $ 100 billion-plus to keep the war going . Saddam did not go to war with Iran , conquer Kuwait or oppress his people because of Israel . In each of the last two years , the VA has underestimated the number of veterans who would seek help and the cost of treating them - - forcing it to go cap in hand to Congress for billions of dollars in emergency funding . Pro-Palestinian commentators still deride Kollek for moving Arab families to create the Western Wall plaza in the old Jewish quarter . The initiative will support three distinct efforts to strengthen journalism education : curriculum enrichment ( based at journalism schools at the University of Southern California ; University of California , Berkeley ; Northwestern University and Columbia University ) ; News21 ( an innovative student internship program ) and the Carnegie-Knight Task Force on Journalism . If the new Congress wants to show its commitment to fix contracting , it should do something out of character - - amid hearings exposing waste , fraud , and abuse , maybe a lonely one could be held giving career officials occasions to present innovations they have developed to get better value from contracting . Ironically , in the context of procurement crises involving Iraq and Hurricane Katrina , Congress has been willing to appropriate additional funds for staff to identify and investigate mistakes after they have been made - - but not to appropriate funds to hire contracting officers to prevent mistakes from being made in the first place : Almost 500 Inspector-General , General Accounting Office , and auditing staff were assigned to post-Katrina oversight ( much though not all regarding contracting ) , while FEMA 's total contracting staff nationwide numbered a mere 40 . A thug , maybe the worst of the many the Arab world has produced , he brutalized millions of his own people , started a bloody war with Iran and conquered and raped Kuwait .