Investigators already have interviewed more than 2,000 people as part of the probe and hope to speak to unnamed others who "might enlighten us as to why he did what he did," Israel said, though he emphasized that a day into the investigation, police did not believe Cruz had any accomplices.
He emphasized that a day of training that acquaints a team with the concept of unconscious bias and its pernicious effects is a good beginning.
At a news conference later Thursday, Bloomberg emphasized a focus on teacher quality, saying that while he would prefer smaller classes with more effective teachers, he's "in favor of" putting highly effective teachers in front of larger classes if finances are limited.
By emphasizing day-to-day development, we expect to drive better performance overall.
Advocacy groups, led by Know Your IX, wrote an open letter to college presidents Wednesday, emphasizing a demand for fair "procedural rights for both parties, the accused and the accusing student".
Mr. Fernández, 50, who was raised in New York before returning to Santo Domingo to attend college, signaled a desire to confront corrupt practices, but emphasized Monday an urgent need to re-engage regional leaders and international lending institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Some analysts and Congressional officials suggested Friday that emphasizing a terrorist threat now was a good way to divert attention from the uproar over the N.S.A.'s data-collection programs, and that if it showed the intercepts had uncovered a possible plot, even better.
As the United States military seeks to extend its counterterrorism reach in Africa, President Obama is expected to appear at West Point on Wednesday to emphasize a foreign policy that would avoid large land wars, like those in Afghanistan and Iraq, and instead stress the training of allied and partner nations to battle militants on their own soil.
The commission has concluded that problems with the cement job were a major cause of the well disaster, although Mr. Bartlit emphasized on Monday that a deepwater well was a complicated system and that no single error or flaw was solely responsible.
A spokesman for the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which has pushed for a living-wage measure and has been working with Ms. Quinn's office on a compromise, emphasized on Thursday that the language was a work in progress.
