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...Maybe there should be a separate funding category for professional corps," said Stephen Goldsmith, the chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service, who added that he was not pleased that Teach for America had been defunded. "The grant selection process was narrow and quite bureaucratic, and we're going to have to review it. We'll try to get this rectified in the 2004 budget year or before...
...scholar, Ford avoided specialization in a narrow field, conducting his research and teaching in several areas and time periods in Western European History. His efforts were rewarded with grants, accolades and prestigious fellowships...
After his narrow victory, Davis promptly announced an astonishing state budget deficit of $38 billion. This wasn't entirely his fault--the recession had caused capital-gains tax receipts to plummet from $17 billion to $4 billion--but Davis had not been honest about the looming disaster during the campaign, and instant karma got him in the form of Darrell Issa, a millionaire paleo-conservative Congressman who bankrolled the successful recall petition drive...
...After his narrow victory, Davis promptly announced an astonishing state budget deficit of $38 billion. This wasn't entirely his fault-the recession had caused capital-gains tax receipts to plummet from $17 billion to $4 billion-but Davis had not been honest about the looming disaster during the campaign, and instant karma got him in the form of Darrell Issa, a millionaire paleo-conservative Congressman who bankrolled the successful recall petition drive...
...begun to try to change its narrow way of thinking. Today disrupting a terrorist group gets top priority, and if secrecy is lost, blowing the chances of a successful prosecution, so be it. Director Robert Mueller has replaced nearly all the bureau's mid-level executives, and many of the agents who were over 50 have retired. Agents are being told they can no longer simply construct an edifice of known facts, as they would for a traditional prosecution. They must instead look around corners and try to understand a terrorist's intentions, habits, methods and psychology. And where...