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...veteran Dole staff member, "but up close he is the kind of guy who goes out of his way to be kind to people. The public perception of her is the Southern belle. She can be that, but at heart she is a tough, no-nonsense, focused Washington bureaucrat." Colleagues cite three reasons for her success: preparation, preparation, preparation. "When she goes into a meeting," says Mari Will, a longtime associate and Bob Dole's former communications director, "she expects to be better prepared than anyone else there." Mrs. Dole holds others to the same exacting standard. If a staff...
...those "average citizens" who have a few hundred dollars to spare can determine which candidates will run and get a chance to be heard. But this is a concept of democratization that would only make sense to someone with the salary of a law professor or a federal bureaucrat. I don't know a single person in my family or neighborhood who would even think of giving something near a week's paycheck to a political candidate. And it turns out we aren't all that rare; according to Roll Call, fewer than four tenths of one percent of American...
...come from Russell, Kansas. There's not much money there, but the people are rich in many other ways...We know that the help of a neighbor is preferable to that of a bureaucrat. And we know that wealth is created by free individuals with their smarts and their sweat. Government programs can only spend...
...decision to make. Witt's responsibility is not to avoid controversy or to make editorial decisions on the content of the sourcebook. His position as copyright officer is to secure the requisite permission for reproductions and to produce the sourcebook for the professors. The professors, and not a Harvard bureaucrat, must decide what is fitting for classroom discussion...
...Silverman's behavior is bizarre for a bureaucrat, the reaction of his bosses is even more surprising: they're going along with it. Regulators have met with the Rocky Flats management team to rewrite and simplify the cumbersome rules, and the DOE has approved Silverman's plan to further cut the facility's 4,878-person work force. Admits Assistant Energy Secretary Thomas Grumbly: "We have created a paperwork jungle over the past 50 years...