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...confidence -- he has a 66 percent approval rating, and the majority of residents say they feel safer no w than five years ago -- commissioners and even some of his staunchest supporters say Williams has pretty much dropped the ball on what was expected to be the dawn of a kinder, gentler era for the LAPD. Part of it has to do with his own shortcomings an d failures -- notoriously poor management, an inability to win the support of the top echelons of a police departments still deeply entrenched with Gates loyalists, and very mixed reviews on whether he had made...
Raines also has no patience for Washington policyspeak, or political euphemism. He cares little whether his Medicare plan is referred to as a cut or by the kinder formulation, "restraining growth," that the Republicans insisted on last year. His ideas go well beyond making the numbers balance. Until now the U.S. government's relationship with the troubled District of Columbia had been a squabble over how large the federal subsidy should be. Last month Raines unveiled a bailout plan that would totally transform the contract between the two, opening a debate that all sides agree was long overdue...
Price says he'll work hard to keep that from happening again. "I would like to see a gentler, kinder era dawn...
...Justin Porter Here's a man with a one-track mind. Too bad he doesn't know as much about running for president as Roger Porter. Albert Lee Does anybody care about the U.C.? Does he care about the U.C.? Nice suit, though. Phil Kaufman Let's keep your kinder, gentler tax increase for our descendants and bring on the core reform now. Elizabeth Haynes The Leona Helmsley of the council. She knows her stuff, though. We'll meditate on that one. Joe Sena A mild-mannered man in a nice suit. No politics on the U.C.--what the PUCC...
Kessler and Reich both cited family concerns as their reasons for leaving, claiming they wanted to spend more time with their wives and young children. Perhaps such resignations are merely, a harbinger of a new era of kinder, gentler '90s people who are willing to renounce influential careers so that they can attend their children's afternoon soccer games. But the mass defections from the White House also seem to imply that people are trying to get off the ship before it goes down. Why else would so many key players walk away from a winning team...