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...letter to Burton Egbert Stevenson, Thayer wrote that the poem's "persistent vogue is simply unaccountable, and it would be hard to say, all things considered, if it has given me more pleasure than annoyance...
CORRESPONDENTS: Joelle Attinger (Chief), Paul A. Witteman (Deputy), Suzanne Davis (Deputy, Administration); Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Richard Hornik, J. Madeleine Nash, Bruce van Voorst, Jack E. White
CORRESPONDENTS: Joelle Attinger (Chief), Paul A. Witteman (Deputy), Suzanne Davis (Deputy, Administration); Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editors: Stanley W. Cloud, Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Barry Hillenbrand, J. Madeleine Nash, Bruce van Voorst, Jack E. White
...everybody shares Burton's enthusiasm. Some critics are worried that private companies will use the science council as a virtual R. and D. lab, allowing them to reap the benefits of millions of dollars of federal science money without having to contribute a dime. Others fear that the science bureaucracy will get bigger, not smaller, making it a tempting tool for pork- minded politicians. Paul Romer, an economist from the University of California, Berkeley, questions how effective the NSTC will be at dismantling wasteful or irrelevant programs. "It will make virtually no difference," he predicts. "That spending is there because...
CORRESPONDENTS: Joelle Attinger (Chief), Paul A. Witteman (Deputy), Suzanne Davis (Deputy, Administration); Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editors: Stanley W. Cloud, Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Barry Hillenbrand, J. Madeleine Nash, Bruce van Voorst, Jack E. White