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Rather than blaming those at the top of the University's power structure, Shand-Tucci faults Harvard's growing bureaucracy, saying the decision to destroy the cage was likely made by "some lower level bureaucrat who wouldn't know the history of Harvard from the history of Stanford...
...LONGTIME BUREAUcrat, Mark Silverman knows the usual rules of the game: cover your flanks, avoid making decisions, bury all problems under layers of paperwork. As the manager of the Department of Energy's Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant, though, Silverman also knows he's sitting on a time bomb. Until production was stopped in 1989, the plant--just 16 miles from downtown Denver, Colorado--manufactured plutonium components for the nation's nuclear weapons. Enough radioactive waste remains on the premises to cover a football field to a depth...
...negotiator Jeffrey Jamar, who recommended the plan to end the siege with a tear gas assault, challenged a cult lawyer's assertion that "some desk-bound bureaucrat in Washington" overrode a negotiated surrender agreement between the FBI and Branch Davidians. Jamar, who made the call, said evidence suggested that cult leader David Koresh's offer to surrender was nothing but a ruse. Koresh, said Jamar, "constantly would make promises he did not keep...
...other words, does he have the force of will to propel himself into the main arena of national politics and the steeliness to be a good President? Even though Powell spent his life as a warrior, he never looked for fights. His success was as a bureaucrat, and a very careful one at that. "Powell is not an innovator," says a four-star general who served with him. "He is a wonderful man, but he is a solid, dependable, reliable tinkerer at the margins...
...bogged down in local political issues. When a scandal erupted earlier this year over the illegal construction of homes on the crucial dike system protecting Hanoi from the Red River, Kiet had to step in and resolve it. "That's still better than the old days," says a Hanoi bureaucrat. "Then, if you were dying and needed a blood transfusion, you'd have to get Prime Minister Pham Van Dong to sign off." Vietnam's leaders surely know that central control will not work in a market economy--and that Vietnam's future depends on loosening up. Still, old habits...