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...think that the majority of the people on the School Committee felt that history had proven that the city council and the city manager would provide additional money," says Bert Giroux, the public information administrator at the School Department. "The city manager made it clear from the outset that in the past the money had been available...
...dock were not the only ones squirming through the kangaroo sessions. The Bush Administration was chafing too, embarrassed by the brutish behavior of a regime that it had risked so much to restore to power. Embracing a government as undemocratic as Kuwait's was awkward from the outset, but expectations were high that the liberated country would march briskly toward liberalization. Instead, the ruling band of brothers and cousins that runs the country seems to have settled comfortably into its old habits...
...outset of The Kitchen God's Wife (Putnam; 415 pages; $22.95), one's apprehensions begin to gather like avenging furies: the opening pages introduce us to a young Chinese-American woman, her all-American husband and her inalienably Chinese mother, living around San Francisco -- precisely the contemporary scene that made up the least transporting parts of The Joy Luck Club. For two chapters the young woman tells a pleasant but unremarkable tale of sweet-and-sour tensions, haunted by her nagging mother -- and by her nagging sense that her mother and she are speaking different languages. Then, on page...
...architects and planners, have been reinventing the suburb, and their solution to sprawl is both radical and conservative: they say we must return to first principles, laying out brand- new towns according to old-fashioned fundamentals, with the locations of stores, parks and schools precisely specified from the outset, with streets that invite walking, with stylistic harmony that avoids the extremes of either architectural anarchy or monotony...
...Webster's four-year stint at the helm of America's vast intelligence network. He had ably carried out the mandate given to him at the outset: to restore the CIA's image and accountability, both of which had been badly damaged by his predecessor, the devious and headstrong William Casey. "Webster improved relations with Congress. Internally, he established stricter rules," says David Whipple, a former senior CIA official who now heads the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. "He did his job very well...