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...blood between them or that Daim plans to leave office. Many political pundits expect Daim to quietly resign after a decent interval. That would allow him to return to private life?something he has been talking about for years?and allow Mahathir to show that he is serious about reform. "He can say, 'You see, I am getting rid of my closest friends as well as my enemies,'" says Sharir...
...some larger goal. It's hard even to say which was the worst of the recent crop of federal offenses, though the McVeigh blunder probably doesn't make the top five. Two weeks ago, officials from the Boston FBI field office were hauled before the House Committee on Government Reform to explain why they had allowed Joseph Salvati to spend 30 years in prison for a murder they knew he didn't commit, just to protect one of their informants. "The Federal Government determined that Joe Salvati's life was expendable," said his lawyer Victor Garo. Asked if he felt...
...personal issues left the department disorganized and interfered with the effective implementation of programs and the quality of arts education. These administrative difficulties—such as courses not entered into the catalog promptly—were recognized for some time before measures were taken last year to reform the department...
...especially fine spring day: we won an Ellie in Public Interest for our three-part series last year on campaign finance, written by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. As the judges' citation put it, "In an election year that saw much heated rhetoric on campaign finance reform, this concisely written series stands as a devastating indictment of a system run amok. By ferreting out individual stories of who gets hurt and why, the authors bring the issue of big-money political lobbying into ultra-sharp focus...
...response to what it has termed an “energy crisis,” the Bush administration has begun to finalize a reform strategy that relies on increasing energy supplies to meet increasing demand. President George W. Bush, a former oil industry executive, has generally favored obtaining greater fossil fuel supplies from previously untapped areas, and Vice President Dick Cheney, also a former oil executive, has said that the United States will need 1,300 new power plants by 2020—more than one a week—to satisfy increasing demand...