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...come a long way, baby, since 1978. Uncloseted homosexuals occupy seats in Congress, state legislatures and city councils; as author and political strategist David Mixner notes, "almost every state has at least one openly gay or lesbian elected official, including Alabama, Montana and Oklahoma." The gay subculture is a hip harbinger of official culture and can boast its own nationwide cable network in Logo (two if you count Bravo!). Homocentric movies like Milk have replaced homophobic movies like Advise and Consent; and in TIME you read reviews like this instead of the 1962 review of Victim...
...passage of No Child Left Behind, which established standards for measuring student progress. A new Education Secretary could, if he or she so desired, gut the accountability provisions in No Child Left Behind with the stroke of a pen. And in Washington, where the budget is controlled by Congress, Obama's leadership could give Rhee enormous momentum--or shut her down. "It would send a huge message if this Administration actually took a side on where we are with the union negotiations here," she says. The question is which side Obama...
...president-elect has already asked his economic team to consult with Congress, the current administration, and the Federal Reserve on economic developments over the next two months, to brief him daily, and to issue recommendations for a recovery plan...
...excluded under a top-down approach to homeland-security issues since 9/11. "The trust between federal, state and locals is just not there," says Ray Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors Association. Governors, including Napolitano, have protested the costs of REAL ID, a 2005 law passed by Congress to upgrade the security of drivers' licenses, as well as the failure of the Federal Government to take a lead in repairing the country's immigration policies. (Napolitano declared a state of emergency in Arizona in 2005 to direct more funds to the state's border...
...liability, at least in the beginning. "Her one weakness is not knowing how to operate inside the Beltway," says Randall Larsen, author of Our Own Worst Enemy, a 2007 book on homeland security. "What she will need is a very savvy deputy - one who knows how to deal with Congress and the interagency community...