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"Maybe there should be a separate funding category for professional corps," said Stephen Goldsmith, the chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service, who added that he was not pleased that Teach for America had been defunded. "The grant selection process was narrow and quite bureaucratic, and we're...
"We were shocked," Kopp told me. "There had been no warning." To be sure, Kopp was aware that the rest of AmeriCorps was being squeezed because of a bureaucratic accounting snafu and congressional reluctance to rectify the error. Most AmeriCorps programs were facing severe cuts. But Teach for America's...
Looking back on it now, it is difficult to choose the precise moment when U.S. government officials--hobbled by old-fashioned rules, saddled with ancient computers that could not talk to one another and riven by silly bureaucratic rivalries--missed their best chance to thwart the plot by 19 hijackers...
And accountability, never a Washington strong suit, remains elusive. It was during the State of the Union address in January that Bush asked for the creation of a single independent center to coordinate all terrorist threats. The center finally opened a few months ago, after weeks of predictable bureaucratic warfare...
But who is responsible if, as Connecticut Republican Chris Shays asked at a House hearing last week, "some bit of intelligence is not properly viewed or vetted for what it is and something bad happens as a result? Who takes responsibility?" He didn't really get an answer. Why? Said...