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Published January 04, 2010, 12:00 AM

Column: Napolitano flavors the administration

WASHINGTON — Most Americans got their first prolonged look at Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, last weekend. After a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam ignited a concealed fuse as the plane approached Detroit for a landing, apparently intending to blow it up and kill all aboard, it fell to Napolitano to take charge of the federal response.

By: David Broder, Columnist, Worthington Daily Globe

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