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...They hide behind the Friends count," saysWomen's Lacrosse Coach Carole Kleinfelder, anoutspoken critic of the department's treatment ofwomen's teams. "[The Friends are] used to justifyour inability to have the same things...
Enter John Whitley, a quiet-spoken Louisiana native with a lazy smile, whose cowboy hats and elephant-hide boots make more of an impression than his low- key manner. In just 32 months, he has turned Angola around, relying on little more than his sense of decency and fairness. The number of stabbings, hangings and escape attempts has dropped dramatically. The malaise has lifted. Security officers say Whitley has improved communications between the prisoners and the 1,545-member staff. Inmates credit Whitley with providing new educational and recreational programs. Most important, inmates feel they have an advocate in Whitley...
...lame excuses for shockingly poor performance by these same individuals and their loose talk about the long-range merely serves to obfuscate real issues. It attempts to hide inexcusable blunders of the last five to six years by "averaging" them with previous more acceptable performances. This is nothing less than a cheap statistical game played against the unsuspecting president and the governing bodies. No refuge from reality should be sought in easy dismissive remarks about the long-range. This is unworthy of any analytical mind and contrary to common sense. In the long-run, as Lord John Maynard Keynes said...
Tipper Gore hasn't even figured out how to set the clock; she finally had to cover it with black masking tape to hide the relentless blinking -- 12:00/12:00/12:00 -- that is the unmistakable sign of a VCR illiterate. Barbara Walters has three VCRs and can't program any of them. "I'm reduced to asking friends to tape for me," she says. "I am deeply ashamed...
...Washington Post reported last week that Parker wrote a memo outlining contradictions in the government's evidence and suggesting that changes in the department's strategy would be "simply a ruse" to hide the contradictions...