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...Washington's cycle of blame spun up again last week, the official caught in the blades was Robert Mueller, who until now has impressed many critics with his intelligence, energy and commitment to reform. Though the director did not comment on the specifics of the Rowley memo, he issued a statement that signaled he is serious about fixing his broken institution. "I am convinced that a different approach is required," he said. "There is no room for the types of problems and attitudes that could inhibit our efforts." One of his ideas is to create a new "flying squad...
...Latvia. The country faces a host of other structural problems that aren't being fixed?and aren't likely to be if leaders exploit the whiff of a recovery to justify continuing a pattern of do-nothing politics. "The ruling party could use this as an excuse to stall reform," says Katsuya Okada, a Democratic Party leader. Any improvement "is only cyclical," Okada carps, "it doesn't represent a full recovery...
...calls for reform have multiplied over the past year, the Faculty’s Educational Policy Committee has brainstormed several ways to combat grade inflation. One suggestion, which was adopted by the Faculty and will be enacted next year, is to switch from Harvard’s needlessly confusing 15-point grading scale to the standard four-point scale. This is a good move, but it will not directly reduce grade inflation; grades have increased because standards have disintegrated, and shifting to a new grading scale will not make grades more accurate...
...Brien blasted Republican leadership for failing to deliver on campaign pledges of financial reform and fiscal responsibility...
...radical Islamic group Hamas, Fatah's rival. "We look at them as would-be members," says a senior Hamas official. Close aides to Arafat doubt that the Palestinian leader actually wants the terror attacks to stop, since the Israeli retaliations that inevitably follow deflect attention from his pledges to reform his corrupt and dictatorial government. Arafat last week signed a long-delayed Basic Law, a kind of pre-state constitution, but in private he's avoiding committing himself to a date for the elections he has promised. "This man doesn't want to change," says an Arafat aide. Meanwhile, Israeli...