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...Alexander, 51, brings a degree of political acumen to his job that was never seen under predecessors Lauro Cavazos and William Bennett. He learned from masters, serving first as an aide to Tennessee Senator Howard Baker and then in the Nixon White House before emerging in his own right as a two-term Republican Governor (1979-87). This background gives him a big advantage when he travels to Capitol Hill, as he often does, to lobby for his program. He understands compromise. "I can work with a guy like that," says William Ford, the crusty House education committee chairman...
...France, two in Greece, five in Italy, three in Spain, three in Sweden and one in Switzerland. Most of these men have been convicted of crimes; the others are awaiting trial for acts ranging from the importation of explosives to the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Perez de Cuellar signaled that the release of any of these prisoners would not be considered; he called them a "legal problem," as distinct from the "political problem" of the hostages...
...designated roughnecks like Adams and Sununu often end up as victims of the terrible swift sword that they loved to wield so much. Adams by all accounts enjoyed laying about in righteous fervor in the name of national interest. And Sununu relished summoning the hapless Secretary of Education Lauro Cavazos to his office and giving him the heave-ho for the greater glory of Bush, who stayed away from the execution. Perhaps the power these men are given breeds in some ways the arrogance that leads them into trouble. There is only one man who can correct it: the President...
Some Bush Administration insiders are acidly recounting the irony of a blunt lecture John Sununu delivered to former Education Secretary Lauro Cavazos last December. When the chief of staff summoned the ineffectual Cabinet member and asked him to resign, Sununu included a few sharp comments on Cavazos' travel habits. The Secretary usually took along his wife Peggy Ann, and is suspected of paying her fares with frequent-flyer credits he earned on official business -- an apparent violation of federal rules requiring those bonuses to be turned over to the government. The couple also preferred to travel on TWA, even when...
...operas in history have been as instantly controversial as The Death of ! Klinghoffer. To begin with, the subject matter is politically incendiary: the brutal 1985 murder of a wheelchair-using American Jew by Palestinian terrorists aboard the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. Further, the opera is the second collaboration by composer John Adams, librettist Alice Goodman, choreographer Mark Morris and director Peter Sellars -- the people behind Nixon in China. That dazzling 1987 opera left a trail of argument in its wake as it made its way across America and Europe. Surely, Klinghoffer would be even more provocative than its predecessor...