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Nonetheless, Gore's task force this week will release a report, formally labeled the National Performance Review, that aims at nothing less than "reinventing government" -- the title of a best-selling 1992 book that the Vice President has adopted as his slogan. Gore's report will recommend sweeping changes in the way the federal bureaucracy draws up its budgets, organizes its departments and agencies, buys its equipment and supplies, even in its procedures for hiring, promoting and (gasp!) firing employees...
What to do? For one thing, Gore will recommend, and Clinton will no doubt order, that some government departments try to measure how well they do their jobs. That so screamingly obvious a step should have to be commanded from the Oval Office in itself speaks volumes about the federal mind-set. But it is a fact that many Executive agencies are so obsessed with following the rules and staying within their budget that they never try to measure how well -- or if -- they serve the public. Gore and Clinton will insist that they commit themselves to specific performance standards...
...after he took the oath of office, the President came to rest on a New England island so small it has no traffic lights. Martha's Vineyard, a 100-sq.-mi. haven of quaint shingled houses, quiet country gardens, yacht-studded harbors and stunning beaches, has many attributes to recommend it, not the least of which is that its inhabitants are sufficiently celebrity-trained so that no one stares into opera diva Beverly Sills' grocery cart at Cronig's or gawks at Jackie Onassis riding her bike near her house in Gay Head. A President -- no big deal...
...poll published by the National Law Journal last week concluded that "resentment of lawyers -- ranging from lawyer-bashing jokes to outright vilification -- is running at a fever pitch." Seventy-three percent of the 815 Americans polled believe that there are too many lawyers. Only 5% said they would recommend law as a profession to their children. Concedes incoming A.B.A. president R. William Ide III: "We're sort of getting kicked in the shins...
...Faculty Council votes to recommend that Harvard's participation in ROTC programs be suspended if insufficient progress had been made in resolving issues of discrimination by the military on the basis of sexual orientation...