Word: frankness
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tgkillfile: @petehoekstra Stuck inside working from home today. Now I know how Anne Frank felt...
...Several longtime friends who visited Rumsfeld in the weeks after he left office described him as somewhat subdued initially, but it wasn't long before the former secretary was exhibiting his customary exuberance in private gatherings. "He's extraordinarily resilient," said Frank Carlucci. "You could bash him all you want and he'll bounce back right away. It rolls...
...California could become the only state in the First World without subsistence benefits for poor children," says Frank Mecca, executive director of the County Welfare Directors Association of California. If California ends CalWORKs, the state's welfare-to-work program, it would save $1.3 billion but lose three times that amount in federal money. (Since President Bill Clinton's reform, welfare has been run by the states, which receive block grants from the Federal Government that they spend as they wish. Mecca says no other state has ever said no to the federal money, nor has one proposed a flat...
Urban America is hard-pressed as well, says Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson. "For the last three years, we've scraped and scrounged just to pool together different pots of money to get children hired during the summer," says Jackson, speaking of a joint city-county effort to create summer jobs. "We've been able to do anywhere from 1,200 to 1,500 jobs a summer. But these stimulus dollars give us about 4,500 additional jobs to play with." (Read "A Biden Show-and-Tell: How the Stimulus Has Created Jobs...
Davis is not the only candidate with Washington cred. Another leading candidate is Melissa Hathaway, who led Obama's 60-day cybersecurity review and previously advised President George W. Bush on cybersecurity issues. Also in the running are Frank Kramer, who was assistant defense secretary for international security affairs under President Bill Clinton, and Howard Schmidt, another adviser to Bush on cyberspace security and protection of critical infrastructure. Schmidt also has extensive private-sector experience, including stints with eBay and Microsoft, where he was chief security officer...