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...What?" by Joe Klein [Feb. 1]: President Obama spent a year working within the system to bring change. Wrong choice. Special interests gutted the reform out of the health care, banking and climate-and-energy bills, showing that congressional Democrats are as susceptible to the influence of money as Republicans. The President now understands. After the Massachusetts election, he went over the heads of the system to ask for help in getting action on banking reform. Now it's us vs. Wall Street in a fight to win over our Representatives. Ray Richardson, GREENFIELD...
State of the White House Re "Now What?" by Joe Klein [Feb. 1]: President Obama spent a year working within the system to bring change. Wrong choice. Special interests gutted the reform out of the health care, banking and climate-and-energy bills, showing that congressional Democrats are as susceptible to the influence of money as Republicans. The President now understands. After the Massachusetts election, he went over the heads of the system to ask for help in getting action on banking reform. Now it's us vs. Wall Street in a fight to win over our Representatives. Ray Richardson...
...gave out wasn't all that surprising when you consider how much he lived. Wilson, a former Texas Congressman who died Feb. 10 at 76, was the kind of man who would declare on 60 Minutes, "I love stickin' it to the Russians." The kind of man who would bring his then girlfriend, a former Miss World USA, on a fact-finding trip to Pakistan. The kind of man, his House colleagues used to say, who could strut while sitting down. Still, he was elected 12 times from Lufkin, Texas--a town so conservative that it didn't vote...
Keep the Kids; Bring In New Adults All that said, few would argue with the proposition that radical steps are needed to fix the country's public schools. Champions of the turnaround approach say that where it has been applied properly, the early results are encouraging. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has cited Mastery Charter Schools as a shining example of how to right a capsized ship. So far, Mastery has used the same approach at each of the three schools it has taken over from the School District of Philadelphia since 2006: retain the students, spiff up the place...
...Henricksons run with a local tribe, cozies up to the sulky, dishy Blackfoot Tommy Flute in a sweat lodge and finds an ally in Marilyn Densham (Sissy Spacek), a Washington lobbyist who, against Bill's wishes, wants to represent the casino. Ana reappears, visibly pregnant, and Barb agitates to bring the waitress back into the family because "she's carrying our child" - until she learns that the child was conceived before the marriage. Bill reveals that his political ambitions fold into his domestic dream of make his polygamy public and moving his families into one big house. Bill's parents...