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...doesn't play well in a country where change is a word viewed with deep suspicion. So he's softening the line. He made a speech the other day in Périgueux, praising French bureaucrats and saying that the main reason the country hasn't been able to reform itself is because it never put enough money into the effort. The slew of measures he proposed, including more kindergartens and higher unemployment benefits for low-paid workers, would cost more than €35 billion, according to the Institut de l'Entreprise, a pro-business think tank. There wasn...
Interim President Derek C. Bok and Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles have said general education reform is a faculty priority that they hope to see completed this year...
...letter Wednesday to the Office of Management and Budget, Rep. Henry Waxman, the senior Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, claims that Bush Administration cabinet officers have "routinely flaunted" the rules governing the use of private planes. Traveling on private planes and helicopters, he complains, always seems to spike around election time. During the 2004 campaign, travel on private aircraft to cities in battleground states "was over four times higher than in non-election years," says Waxman. In October 2004, for example, then Education Secretary Rodney Paige spent $50,290 on private jet travel in three key states - Pennsylvania...
...Government Reform Committee got the travel records of 14 federal departments and agencies. Ten of the organizations reported travel by senior officials on chartered or leased planes and helicopters. The most frequent flyer on private aircraft: Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt. From January to June of this year, according to HHS records provided to the committee, he visited more than 90 cities on private jets leased by the Center for Disease Control, at a cost...
...Davis, the Government Reform Committee's G.O.P. chairman, says he "reached different conclusions" from the documents the panel received. According to his reading, the rules allow department secretaries to charter jets for meetings, conferences and speeches, which "are an important part of the job of senior officials at any agency." Davis also pointed out that the documents received from the Bush Administration showed that the cost of private aircraft travel for top officials averaged $12,000 per trip, compared with just over $13,000 per trip for the departments that produced records from the Clinton Administration. "Mr. Waxman instead should...