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When Imperatives Collide: The 2003 San Diego Firestorm

Publication Date: October 31, 2005

In October 2003, a confluence in southern California of low humidity, dead vegetation, and Santa Ana winds created the conditions for a firestorm--multiple fires that burned for some two...

The Defense Minister's Decision

Publication Date: August 04, 2005

An elected but corrupt populist President, who is completing his second term, has suggested that he will remain in office by whatever means necessary. Large segments of the public in the...

Should the Constitution be Amended?

Publication Date: August 04, 2005

Senator Juan Santos must cast a decisive vote for or against amending the fledgling Constitution to allow the popular and successful incumbent president a second six year term. Aware of the...

The White House Carves the Turkey

Publication Date: November 01, 2004

When a deputy director for environmental protection in the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff of the US Army learns that a project on which he'd worked for 14 months was about to be...

Confrontation in Utah

Publication Date: November 01, 2004

When the new supervisor of the Manti-La Sal National Forest in San Juan County, Utah receives a letter from the local county commission demanding that she direct the Utah Division of...

A Go-Getter in DOD

Publication Date: November 01, 2004

When a newly-appointed Department of Defense official takes her position, she finds that she must decide quickly how to deal with a "cowboy"-style employee who, although arguably getting...

The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003 (B)

Publication Date: March 01, 2004

The (B) case, details the decisions which the Corporation for National and Community Service made as to how best to estimate the funding needs for the Trust. The (B) case (1740.0), however,...

The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003: Why the National Service Movement Faced Cutbacks and How it Responded (A)

Publication Date: March 01, 2004

The (A) case (1739.0) focuses on the early years of the program in the 1990s, providing a definitive account--based on interviews with those who drafted the authorizing legislation--on how...

Charting a Course in a Storm: US Postal Service and the Anthrax Crisis

Publication Date: May 01, 2003

On October 21, 2001, a postal worker from a mail sorting facility in Washington, DC, died of inhalation anthrax--a disease virtually unseen for a century. The next day, a second employee...

Rudy Giuliani: The Man and His Moment

Publication Date: May 01, 2003

In the hours and days following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks which destroyed New York's World Trade Center towers, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani distinguished himself, in the...

David Ellwood's First Senior Staff Meeting

Publication Date: February 09, 2003

This case describes a typical challenge faced by a sub-cabinet official. New to office, David Ellwood is advised by his (highly competent and professional) staff that he should oppose--at...

Arsenic in Drinking Water

Publication Date: January 22, 2003

In January 2001, on the last day of the term of President William Clinton, the US Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) had reduced the maximum permissible level of arsenic in...