SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30 — A target of criticism for leading the flawed response to an accident and oil spill in San Francisco Bay this month, the Coast Guard captain in charge of the initial cleanup has announced his retirement.
Officials in Texas were still struggling to implement an effective strategy to manage the close associates of the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola outside Africa on Friday, as the hospital where he first presented himself admitted a "flawed" initial response.
At least some troublemakers, it seems, have a flawed biological response to stress that may help set them on the wrong path: A new study has found low levels of the stress hormone cortisol in persistently aggressive boys.
A5 NATIONAL A8-12 Former Chief of FEMA Lashes Back at Superiors Michael D. Brown, the former federal emergency management chief who became a ridiculed symbol of the Bush administration's flawed response to Hurricane Katrina, returned in anger to Capitol Hill and lashed back at his former superiors, saying the administration was too focused on terrorism to respond properly to natural disasters.
Nineteen months after its brave but flawed response at the World Trade Center, the Fire Department is developing a new approach to large-scale disasters.
Alan Schwarz of The Times won the sports reporting award for articles exposing the long-term dangers of concussions and the National Football League's flawed response to brain injuries.
That didn't stop the former director general put out a self-serving statement, arguing that the Pollard report revealed what he had believed all along, namely the flawed response to Savile reflected the BBC's silo mentalilty.
The official autopsies of the flawed response to the catastrophic storm have already begun in Washington, and may offer lessons for dealing with a terrorist attack or even another hurricane this season.
The flawed response to the hurricane badly damaged the political fortunes of both President George W. Bush, a Republican, and Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Louisiana, a Democrat, helping pave the wave for younger, fresh faces like Barack Obama and Mr. Jindal.
