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Clockwise from top: the Clintons will visit Skaneateles, N.Y.; Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala will hike unspecified mountains out West with former Federal Reserve vice chairman Alice Rivlin; Secretary of Commerce William Daley will go salmon fishing in Alaska with Senate Appropriations chairman Ted Stevens; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg taught a law class held at Crete's Sirens Beach Resort Hotel; Senator John McCain will settle in on a houseboat in Lake Powell, Ariz.; Speaker Dennis Hastert will attend the reopening of the Reichstag; Al Gore went canoeing on the Connecticut River...
...there?s a good reason why Clinton the politician (a far more familiar incarnation) is letting Commerce Secretary Bill Daley do the haranguing, and why he's trying to kill the bill without a well-publicized veto: Al Gore. "Clinton has to be careful about this," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "The steel unions are very powerful, and they really want these quotas. Gore ?- and Hillary too ?- is counting on union support to win, and Clinton?s opposition is going to make them angry." It already has. The United Steelworkers of America arranged to have steelworkers descend...
...loiterers "with no apparent purpose other than to establish control over identifiable areas, to intimidate others from entering those areas or to conceal illegal activities," she wrote. Chicago officials vowed to draft a new measure. "We will go back and correct it and then move forward," said Mayor Richard Daley...
...enthusiasm for the hard-line approach started in Chicago. Since 1996, after Mayor Richard Daley took control of the school system and appointed his budget chief, Paul Vallas, as its chief executive, the city has used standardized-test scores to help determine whether students should move to the next grade. In the year before the new approach, less than 2% of students were forced to repeat a grade; last year close to 15% of third-, sixth- and eighth-graders were retained. The city spent $24 million last year on summer programs designed to give kids one last chance to pass...
Adam Cohen's book on Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley is due out next spring