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One group trying to figure out remedies is the Public Agenda Foundation, started a few years ago by Cyrus Vance and Opinion Analyst Daniel Yankelovich. It is a business-academic think tank that uses Yankelovich's survey methods in six countries, and Gyllenhammar is its European chief. The early...
What mainly had changed was that Hannon and his aides had just been accused of multimillion-dollar mismanagement. By Byrne's estimate, Hannon's administration had allowed the school's red ink to soar to $500 million, while claiming the deficit stood no higher than $43 million...
Faced with all this, Hannon stunned the city, and the eleven-member school board, by handing in his resignation. The board had just renewed his four-year contract in September, but he was "tired," he said. He proposed a dramatic $70 million budget cut requiring the elimination of 1,700...
Too often, however, the politicking and personal enmities depicted in The Brethren obscure what the Justices are really struggling with: the application of the law and the Constitution to complex moral and social questions like abortion, obscenity, busing, the death penalty. The notion that such issues can be considered solely...
Again and again in The Brethren, blatant ploys or power plays by individual Justices are thwarted by the court as a whole. A poorly reasoned opinion by one Justice is hammered into something coherent and justifiable by others. During the Watergate crisis, when Burger took the court's decision...