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...give you a rule," Rumsfeld said last Friday, an hour or so after he announced that he would let the services reform themselves. He put pen to yellow foolscap and spoke as he wrote. "It goes something like this: 'If you deal with a senior officer, you can be almost absolutely certain that he is capable of doing a number of things very, very well--even though the thing you are dealing with him on may not be one of those things...
...what clearly has the White House official steamed most is the way the military has short-circuited Rumsfeld's reforms. "We're giving them the largest increase in spending since 1984, and they're out there complaining!" says the official. "If they think they can get more money out of Congress, more power to them. All they want is more money--more money and no reform...
DiIulio's departure would be less significant if the only other Democrat with a high-ranking White House job weren't following him out the door. Not only is Sandy Kress a Democrat, but he's also the lead negotiator and chief policymaker for Bush's education-reform plan. Together with his faith-based initiative, education reform undergirded Bush's claim to be a compassionate conservative. Like DiIulio, Kress was chosen because Bush hoped his Democratic credentials would attract bipartisan support. In Kress's case, it worked. But after the education-reform bill clears Congress, expected next month, Kress will...
...allow home-schooled kids to sign up for such offerings as a physics class or the football team. A growing number of districts are opening resource centers where home schoolers come for class once or twice a week. In Orange County, Calif., two school districts have combined two reform ideas by opening charter schools that offer home-schooling programs...
Opponents of the reform argue that it distracts lawyers from their primary obligation: rigorously advocating the interests of their clients. But backers say the new policy will force lawyers to weigh their obligations to clients against their larger duty to society. Read between the lines, and you have an implicit acknowledgment that lawyers could do something to improve their image. "There's been a recognition, particularly when there's a danger to life and limb, that lawyers ought not to be legalistic," says Nancy Moore, a Boston University professor of law who helped draft the proposed new rules...