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Yesterday, representatives of about 15 organizations ranging from the Irish Students Association to the Carribean Club discussed a topics including minority hiring in the Faculty and the creation of a multicultural student center...
That's why even Clinton, so skilled at co-opting his opponents' issues, went only so far when he proposed his own reform of the IRS after the recent heartrending hearings. His plan called for the creation of 33 so-called citizens-advocacy panels, but he held firm against establishing a private-sector oversight board with power over IRS personnel, policy and budget decisions. In a West Wing meeting before the President's plan was made public, several aides insisted that the Administration not get backed into a corner defending an agency Americans love to hate. But Gene Sperling...
...President supports the creation of more charter schools, which are public schools free of some of the bureaucratic rules that might put a drag on classroom performance. It so happens that charter schools are also acceptable to teachers unions, important Democratic allies that oppose vouchers in part because the private schools they foster generally pay lower salaries than public systems. Democrats hope they can defeat any drift toward vouchers among blacks if they can just make plain the implications. A recent poll conducted by Gallup for Phi Delta Kappa, an international education fraternity, found that most citizens oppose vouchers when...
Twenty years ago, asked why he had so many assistants in his studio--by that time he had left New York for Captiva Island in Florida--Rauschenberg replied, "Because it takes away the egotistical loneliness of creation." Then he wryly added, "But the downside is that you have to wake up with an idea that will keep eight people busy for eight hours." It was true enough to be a difficulty: the basis of Rauschenberg's genius as an artist, despite his love of collaboration, has always been his autographic touch, the sense that one sensibility was at work...
...have been produced on the ordeal of Adam's parents, John Walsh and his wife Reve. But only recently did Walsh--the no-nonsense host of the Fox TV show America's Most Wanted--decide to write down his own story. From its searing prologue through its frank re-creation of the lives undone by Adam's murder, Tears of Rage (Pocket Books; 318 pages; $24) astonishes the reader by turning a familiar tale into one full of fresh detail, undiminished pain and troubling revelation...