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...ignored the committees that traditionally recommend promotions--and, critics say, perpetuate the old-boy network. Mueller has also shocked the troops by personally interviewing candidates for all upper-management and some key middle-management posts. Mueller loyalists say the ex-Marine handpicks young leaders whose passion for detail matches his own. His moves are backed by his boss, John Ashcroft. "The Attorney General has the utmost confidence in how [Mueller is] tackling the job," says Ashcroft aide Barbara Comstock...
...measure of popular passion on the subject is that the movie John Q.--in which Denzel Washington plays an underinsured father holding a hospital at gunpoint to get his son a heart transplant--was No. 1 at the box office during its opening weekend in late February. When the movie came out, the HMO industry's lobbying group bought full-page newspaper ads blaming Washington politicians for failing to address the problems of the uninsured. There's not much evidence, however, that anyone in Washington is paying attention. "While there's conversation going on," says John Engler, Michigan's Republican...
...Weekend? Only the most faithless can believe that sophomores would not rise to the occasion. Having a full year more experience than the first-years, sophomores have at least as much to show for themselves; being a class that continually strives to validate itself, sophomores might make up through passion the advantage that falls to juniors by default. What could happen to the sophomores after spending the weekend with their parents, exhibiting the exceptional talents of their roommates and friends, attending lectures by the most entertaining professors, tasting the night life around Boston and Cambridge, and continually nodding in agreement...
...Epps and Love have gone above and beyond the call of duty and have demonstrated a passion and energy not often found among Harvard professors,” Tremitiere says. “But there is no question that students should and need to take an active role in these efforts...
Self-promotion: “In all modesty, this project constitutes a watershed moment in musical history. The combination of the oratorical passion and unmatched eloquence of Dr. Cornel West with the particular musical genius of Derek D.O.A. Allen has produced an auditory theatrical experience.” (www.cornelwest.com...