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...Amtrak Reform Council, a federal oversight board, last month formally concluded what most observers have known for years: the nation's floundering passenger-train operator has no chance of becoming self-sufficient by the end of 2002, as Congress mandated five years ago. Now that it's clear Amtrak can't go it alone, Congress and the Bush Administration will have to decide whether to invest up to $100 billion in the kind of high-speed trains that glide along at up to 180 m.p.h. in Europe and Japan--or essentially give up on intercity passenger service altogether...
...Amtrak Reform Council will probably recommend that Congress create a new entity to take over Amtrak's responsibility for managing the busy, 700-mile Northeast Corridor, from Washington to Boston. The corridor is the only part of the nation's rails that Amtrak actually owns--the freight rails control the rest--and it costs $400 million to $600 million a year to maintain...
...whether Saudi rulers hate terrorism; they do. But in a mature relationship, Washington could ask for more than assistance with criminal investigations. It would be able to talk to the Saudis about the need to head off extremism by encouraging democratic debate. It could discuss with Riyadh reform of an education system in which schools preach hatred of infidels. It could suggest ways in which oil revenues could be channeled into a diversified economy, not into princely palaces...
...Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Utah, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. The rump of the prosecution is soldiering on, collecting evidence and preparing for new hearings sometime next year. Though tempted to settle, the dissenters decided they had been through too much to win so little. "We want real reform," says California attorney general Bill Lockyer. "Not a fig leaf." (California, like Massachusetts and Utah, is home to some of Microsoft's fiercest competitors...
...think it would be a serious mistake for us to be paralyzed by the interdependence” of the smaller and larger reform proposals, Summers said...