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...wish to prevent welfare recipients from donating to religious charities? Surely the flow of taxpayer dollars into the collection plate constitutes “de facto state sponsorship”—yet such sponsorship is hardly terrifying when it comes, not from the hand of a government bureaucrat, but from the choices of individuals...
VLADIMIR PUTIN He has been called a "bureaucrat thrust forward in history." If so, in 2003 the Russian President compensated. He seized effective control of both the media and the ballot box. Putin's party swept the December elections, leading some observers to cry foul at the margin of victory. His regime also arrested a tycoon who just happens to fund Putin's political rivals. How does one spell "undemocratic" in Russian...
Things started off badly before we even set foot in the theater. Some bureaucrat at Mass. Hall was under the impression that an audience is a big child in need of a little finger wagging, so tickets to the show came with a little slip of paper telling us to get to Sanders 15 minutes before the show begins or we might lose our seat. We should have been so lucky...
...tawdry, implausible feel of a plot twist in a second-rate Tom Clancy novel. Britain's most distinguished expert on biological weapons, a mild, 59-year-old career bureaucrat of unblemished reputation, briefly rockets onto the national stage when he must tell a parliamentary committee about his contacts with a BBC journalist who may or may not have relied upon him to produce an incendiary story that challenged the integrity of the government. He appears strained while testifying - mumbling and shaking his head - denies being the source for the story, and complains about the experience afterwards, but the committee doesn...
...just reorganized after bankruptcy, a chain of luxury golf resorts and a group of television stations. Is he a gunslinging Sunbelt entrepreneur in the mold of Ted Turner? A hedge-fund manager? A contrarian private-equity investor? Not even close. Bronner, 58, is, in his own words, "a government bureaucrat"--the chief executive of Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA), the pension fund for 290,000 state workers and retirees. An unabashed cheerleader for Alabama who is comfortable in the spotlight, Bronner is overturning the image of the pension manager as passive investor--and not without controversy...