Word: oversights
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...leads prayers on Radio Maryja by imitating her reedy, childlike voice on a satirical TV show. The girl is disabled, though Szczuka was unaware of this fact. A column in the radio station's sister newspaper called her a "representative of the civilization of death." The government's media oversight board slapped an unprecedented $154,000 fine on the TV station for "mocking the disabled and their prayers" (though it has imposed no fine on Radio Maryja for its anti-Semitic outbursts). Szczuka's face was splashed across the right-wing press. "It was horrible, a crazy attack," she said...
...civilian control over a military that ran circles around the Clinton Administration. Not long after arriving in 2001, Rumsfeld announced plans to "transform" the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines into lighter, faster, stealthier fighting units. To the guys in uniform, "transform" meant not only cuts but also civilian oversight, so the military did what it does best: it prepared for a long siege. Rumsfeld ran into a wall of generals, Congressmen, lobbyists and weapons makers, who worked quietly together behind Rumsfeld's back to foil his plans...
...sure, the Bush Administration and senior military officials are not alone in their culpability. Members of Congress--from both parties--defaulted in fulfilling their constitutional responsibility for oversight. Many in the media saw the warning signs and heard cautionary tales before the invasion from wise observers like former Central Command chiefs Joe Hoar and Tony Zinni but gave insufficient weight to their views. These are the same news organizations that now downplay both the heroic and the constructive in Iraq...
...tests and teacher support via phone and e-mail. The rush to cash in on dropouts has made such correspondence courses and "virtual high schools" the Wild West of secondary education, a multimillion-dollar industry that can offer a valuable second chance but has suffered at times from poor oversight and a dizzying array of self-styled accrediting institutions, many of which aren't recognized by mainstream colleges...
...contained provisions that give the federal government excessive influence over colleges. But supporters of the act said that it will rein in tuition hikes and make college more affordable. The legislation would increase the maximum individual Pell Grant by $200 to $6,000. It also looks to expand federal oversight of colleges by monitoring tuition hikes. Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, said in a statement that “consistent increases in college costs have made it clear that colleges and universities...