Word: experts
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...short, many think the solution has become as bad as the problem. "In 1964 [when discrimination based on gender first became illegal]," says UCLA harassment-law expert Eugene Volokh, "if you told a member of Congress, 'If you vote to bar discrimination based on sex, you will prohibit employees from putting pictures of their wives in bikinis on their desks,' most legislators would have said, 'Wait a minute, where does it say that...
...first read over the memorandum. "There were procedures in Kofi's agreement that UNSCOM has worked to get rid of," says one. Adding diplomats, along with a political adviser reporting to Annan, inserted another layer into the chain of command and could make the hands-on work of the expert inspectors more difficult. Republicans on Capitol Hill were more outspoken, with Senators Trent Lott, Jesse Helms and John Ashcroft in full denunciation. Even Connecticut Democrat Christopher Dodd was "very uneasy about this agreement...
With skeptical reaction to the deal beginning to mount, Clinton phoned Annan, urging him to clarify the fuzzy patches in the document. The Secretary-General assured the President that the inspections would continue to be "an expert-driven process." The diplomats would not be taking over the job but simply going along and observing, Annan promised. All the inspectors would be experts from UNSCOM or the International Atomic Energy Agency...
...said that Harvard offered the advice of education reform expert and former Dean of the Graduate School of Education Theodore R. Sizer...
...attribute it to programs in the community, crime-watch programs and the expert work of the men and women of the Cambridge Police," Pasquarello said...