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Neil L. Rudenstine is the textbook definition of a scholar--someone whose great interests lie in the intellectual achievements of the past, someone who has read everything, or knows why he has not. In contrast, friends say Summers has an omnivorous mind--but he may not have Rudenstine's deep...
For years, Southwest has grudgingly played on the airline-industry team. It has long been a member of the Air Transport Association, the Beltway's 800-pound lobbyist gorilla that for years has been aggressive - and successful - in defending major airlines' interests. But not a happy one, and in 1997...
In the largest experiment of all, California voters last November passed Proposition 36. Modeled after a vanguard policy in Arizona (see box), it is expected to divert some 100,000 first- and second-time drug offenders from prisons into rehab over the next three years. "California's Proposition 36 highlights...
Hillegass would have done well in my mom?s class. He might have even earned one of her famously rare A?s. Chances are, they would have admired each other - and he probably wouldn?t have minded at all that she rendered his famous booklets utterly and laughably useless.
Robert Mueller: Mueller served in both the Bush I and Clinton administrations, he was a U.S. attorney in Boston during the Reagan administration, and made his mark prosecuting corruption cases. He has impressed careerists in the FBI and at the Justice Department with his intellectual courage and his passion for...