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...with other mujahedin leaders. Gailani told TIME he favored talking with Cordovez. That way, he said, "at least he will know what our position is and pass it on" to the Soviets. Gailani's rebuff of a fellow rebel may be part of the jockeying for position in a post-Soviet power structure...
...wake of the board battle, U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett telephoned to urge Clark to "hang in there." In an even grander gesture of support, Gary Bauer, a former Bennett aide now serving as White House Policy Development Director, offered Eastside's chief a White House post as policy adviser. (Clark turned him down.) Tough leaders like Clark have an important place in the nation's schools, Bennett told the press a few weeks ago. "Sometimes you need Mr. Chips, sometimes you need Dirty Harry...
Talented administrators and teachers elsewhere often create special incentives to motivate students. At Eastern High in Washington, Ralph Neal, who was named one of the top ten U.S. principals by the National School Safety Center, rewards good grades and attendance records by publishing the information in the Washington Post and taking an oustanding youngster to lunch each month at a good Capitol Hill restaurant -- where he also fetes his teacher of the month...
Congress created Costello's post in 1986 following disclosures of huge cost overruns by defense contractors and allegations that companies had, among many other offenses, billed the Pentagon for their executives' country-club fees and charged as much as $7,500 for a coffeepot used in aircraft. The principal remedy, lawmakers thought, would be to centralize all procurement authority in the hands of a single individual. Until then, such power had been spread among a myriad of departments. Said Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder, a Colorado Democrat: "We envisioned a czar who would kick trash cans and have rats jump...
...Clinton is ducking Dukakis. After shying from a presidential bid of his own, boyish Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton told his friend and preferred candidate Michael Dukakis that he would seriously consider endorsing him, and might even take a top post with his campaign. That would have helped undercut Albert Gore's claim as the South's favorite son, something both Clinton and Dukakis would not mind. It would also have enhanced, if Dukakis were to get the nomination, Clinton's objective to be the convention keynote speaker. But as Dukakis, in a hotel room surrounded by aides, was preparing...