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...will rewrite rules for air carriers that purchase maintenance services from outside contractors. The FAA will also replace Anthony Broderick, an associate adminstrator, who will retire at month's end. At the same conference, Transportation Secretary Fredrico Pena said he would ask Congress to change the FAA's charter to remove promotion of air travel from its mission, making airline safety its sole focus...
...city charter, the nine councillors elected in November meet the first week of January and choose a mayor from amongst themselves...
This year, however, many thought Reeves was seeking to expand his powers beyond the scope appropriate for a city whose charter calls for a strong city manager and weak elected officials...
...those it invites for celebration? I would like not to think so, but I--and many years of previous writers to this page--am honestly at a loss otherwise to account for the weekday Commencement schedule. Is the requirement for a weekday graduation inscribed somewhere in the original charter of the College? Then change it! If we can add no fewer than 26 amendments to our national Constitution, then surely we can make a trifling change in Harvard...
...correspondent based in Los Angeles, likes to work on stories that put a human face on great social issues, such as crime, gambling and immigration. But as the mother of two high school students, she has a special interest in education; in recent months she has reported on the charter school movement and the controversy over bilingual curriculums. In this week's issue she writes about a new full-service approach to public schooling called CoZi. Visiting Bowling Park and Sycamore Hills, two schools profiled in her story, Hornblower was struck by their can-do spirit. "No one was talking...