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...Chaotic Mess. One probable explanation for the poor quality of commissioners is money: they are paid entirely on a fee-basis ($6 for signing a search warrant, for example), with an annual maximum of $10,500. Only 25 commissioners hit that level last year; more typically, Miss Carter earned $904. Another problem is that commissioners, who serve four-year terms, are under the thumb of district judges, who may fire them without showing cause. As a result, quality varies widely...
...system at all," says Warren Olney III, director of the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts. "It's a chaotic mess." Olney points significantly at Detroit, which has not had a U.S. commissioner for 16 years. Detroit's federal judges serve as committing magistrates themselves. "You don't find bail-bond brokers hanging around the courthouse in Detroit," says Olney, "which raises the suspicion that maybe one of the commissioners' first functions is to keep bail bondsmen in business." Olney concludes: "Detroit is better off without a U.S. commissioner...
...implication, the Baker case raises two questions the committee must come to grips with. First, is the chaotic moral code of the Senate and adequate protection of the public interest? As interest groups have proliferated, the Senators are under extreme pressure in their legislative decisions about contracts and allocations. Secondly, are there structural changes lessening the abuse of privilege? Many islands of personal power sanctioned by the seniority rules necessitate the use of coercive tactics, of influences of all types. Robert Baker was a child of the Senate. But was that revered institution a school for scandal...
...fourth composition ("as yet untitled"), Davidson muted his jarring stop-and-start rhythms and created a gentler, more peaceful aura. He ended his set with a playful, frantic, ironic version of Miles Davis'Milestones. Though he sometimes sounded chaotic, Davidson is no musical anarchist; his compositions were carefully patterned. But now and then his self-imposed experimental conventions seemed to hobble his imagination...
...James B. Conant, this week illuminates another problem that the U.S. didn't quite realize it had. In a new book, he says that the way the country shapes educational policy-on teaching reforms in grade schools, for example, or standards for advanced placement, or teacher recruiting-is chaotic and costly. After a wistful salute to the policymaking ministries of education in Europe, Conant acknowledges that the U.S. Constitution prevents the Federal Government from taking on such an overriding job. So, with a touch of defensiveness ("I am well aware that there is no novelty in suggesting . . ."), he suggests...