Word: bureaucratism
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Indeed, for all the deliberate notes of reconciliation, politicized discord swirled around the centerpiece of the week's events: the Veterans Memorial. Three years ago, Labor Department Bureaucrat Jan Scruggs, a former Army corporal, decided that he and his fellow Viet Nam veterans needed palpable, permanent recognition in Washington, their own monument in the city of monuments. His Viet Nam Veterans Memorial Fund (V.V.M.F.) persuaded Congress to assign them two acres on the Mall, got 500,000 donors to give $7 million and managed to attract 1,421 entries to a professionally judged design competition. V.V.M.F. wanted a "reflective...
...under the surface, things weren't so smooth. A memo addressed in March to a lower-level bureaucrat in the Selective Service System from an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Criminal Division raised some concerns over the planned method of enforcement. At that point, Selective Service had not yet cross-checked the hundreds of thousands of registration cards with the hundreds of thousands of social security files to see which males born since 1960 had not filled out their registration forms...
...archbishop has always sought to be a pastor as well as a bureaucrat. A few years ago, he began awakening at 6 a.m. instead of 7 a.m. in order to get in an extra hour of prayer. On one occasion a friend phoned him in the middle of the night seeking a priest who could hear the confession of an anguished wayward Catholic. Bernardin turned up, but was introduced as "Father" to spare the penitent any embarrassment...
Long before she became chairman of the Assembly, school administrators were sorry they crossed Pearl's path. As a senior at Woodrow Wilson High in Washington, D.C., she became enraged at one especially incompetent bureaucrat, typed a five-page letter detailing the person's failures, and mailed copies to every local official she could think of--200 in all. When the bureaucrat threatened to sue Pearl for defamation, the story hit The Washington Post, and her nemesis was promptly fired...
Difficult questions are being asked about the effectiveness of Dr. S. Allen Counter in the performance of his part-time job as Director of the fledgling Harvard Foundation. I would like to point out that Professor Counter is a neurobiologist not a petty bureaucrat. He is also an excellent teacher of science, as few students who attended his lecture last month in Biology 7 a would dispute. It is my belief that Professor Counter's time would be better spent in the classroom and the laboratory, which is where a young scholar belongs...