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Despite these evasions, Alexander's "less from Washington" mantra is not an empty slogan. Alone among candidates, the soft-spoken Tennessean goes out of his way to dampen what voters expect. No law passed in Washington, he says, can fix the social pathologies that leave eighth-graders gunned down in a Florida school or crack babies crying in a Michigan clinic. Only community action can. He wants citizens "to get off their butts...
DeBarba assembled a task force to assess what had to be done to get the pool ready for the overdue off-load, but he kept Galatis and Betancourt off the team. The task force came up with six serious problems, most already raised by Galatis. Scrambling to fix the pool in a few weeks, DeBarba hired extra people. The plant shut down, anticipating permission to move fuel...
...began a three-year battle in which Galatis tried to fix what he considered an obvious safety problem at Millstone 1. For 18 months his supervisors denied the problem existed and refused to report it to the NRC, the federal agency charged with ensuring the safety of America's 110 commercial reactors. Northeast brought in outside consultants to prove Galatis wrong, but they ended up agreeing with him. Finally, he took the case to the NRC himself, only to discover that officials there had known about the procedure for a decade without moving to stop it. The NRC says...
Nonetheless, we must all continue to work on breaking the second pane--the one that deters women from taking up elected leadership positions on the council--and to do that will require that we all work on ourselves. The council cannot fix its glass ceiling problem all by itself; as a reflection of society, we must all work to shatter the glass ceiling by breaking within ourselves the traditional notions of gender. Until then, no matter how hard the council itself tries, it will consistently be off-track...
Clinton, as the 1996 campaign begins, has a choice. He can try to confront his path's deficiencies head on, fix them, and thus get for the Mandarins the political legitimacy they now completely lack. Or he can pretend...