Word: bureaucratice
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Even if the economy does retain its rosy glow, however, a more serious prob-lem remains. Milovan Djilas, author of The New Class and former right-hand man to Tito, urged a diminution of centralized rule and greater personal freedoms as long ago as the 1950s. For his pains, Djilas...
With Ellsberg. Editor Buckley managed to be out of town when the story broke, leaving word that he was "hiding out where Daniel Ellsberg is." But he quickly returned to New York City with a smirk and a prepared statement that the National Review's papers had been "composed...
In the past, when Thailand's role in the war guaranteed a steady inflow of money, bureaucratic lethargy was tolerable. Even corruption did not prove too great a drain. No longer. Having opted for a modern economy, Thailand needs a new sense of purpose before anything like the good...
FRANCE Boondoggler's Bible "Stuck in the back of his palace," Napoleon once remarked, "the Emperor can know only what people care to tell him. The Cour des Comptes will keep him informed." To check up on financial high jinks and bureaucratic boon-dogglery in his empire, Bonaparte in...
ONE obvious lesson of the Pentagon papers is that bureaucracies do not always function as they are supposed to, especially in their primary role of advising the President. Less apparent are the reasons why. Leslie Gelb, 34, and Morton Halperin, 33, both middle-ranking officials in the Pentagon under Robert...