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...with Congress. In 2002 he helped save billions of dollars by combining the Navy and Marine Corps aviation programs, and he has been given politically sensitive duties, notably overseeing the Pentagon's review of detainee cases at Guantnamo Bay. Rumsfeld is counting on England's skills to help reform hiring and firing rules for the Pentagon's 700,000-strong civilian work force; implement the closing or realigning of bases around the U.S.; and supervise the Quadrennial Defense Review, which will decide what weapons get funded or axed during the next four years. England, says a senior Pentagon official...
...changes favored by the Governor--and then switched back to the original plans when it was realized that the changes left retirees without enough to live on. If this issue ever reaches voters, I'm hopeful that Californians will have seen enough Terminator movies to recognize the difference between reform and destruction...
...People have been asking that question ever since the era of reform began there in 1980. Yet China has continued to sustain 8%, 9%, 10% growth and even higher. Now they are trying to damp down the growth because they're concerned about overinvestment and inflation. We should never assume things will continue in a straight line. But as long as China and India are experiencing a strong economic growth rate, that translates into higher oil demand...
...through a second, identical questionnaire) on which 10 to build. Usually, such decisions are reserved for Communist Party officials conferring behind closed doors. But cadres in Zeguo and its parent city, Wenling, have pioneered a more participatory approach, putting them at the vanguard of China's experiments in political reform. President Hu Jintao has vowed never to adopt "Western-style" democracy. "But events like Zeguo's referendum, though isolated, may someday form the basis for China's gradual political liberalization," says He Baogang, an expert on Chinese grassroots democracy at the University of Tasmania who was on hand to observe...
...best way to address the humanitarian disregard or the incompetence of the CIA is not by harassing their recruiters.” Trying to prevent good and fair-minded students from entering the CIA or DHS, does not seem to be the most effective way to reform the organizations either. Perhaps the more effective way to better an organization is to encourage people to do so from within...