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...Green Party credentials, punk hairstyle and penchant for Rollerblading, Kunast, 45, has made quite a splash as Germany's new Minister for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture. Amid devastating epidemics of foot-and-mouth and mad-cow disease, Kunast--a lawyer with no prior experience in agriculture--wants to reform European subsidies so they will encourage less crowded, less intensive farming practices that are healthier for animals and consumers...
...years, John McCain had imagined how the Last Battle would be fought, how he would be tested if campaign-finance reform actually came to a vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Ever the rebel among his risk-averse peers, McCain would have to do some things he had never been much good at, cut some corners, play the inside game, be a dealmaker--be more like them in hopes of making them more like him. And then, once he had bullied and cajoled and converted his colleagues, he would have to do something even harder. He would have...
...from corporations, unions and the wealthy. By the end of the week the Arizona Senator, his sidekick, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, and their merry band of china breakers actually had victory in sight--a victory that could lead to the most dramatic campaign-finance overhaul since the post-Watergate reforms of 1974. McCain-Feingold's reforms are so sweeping, in fact, that no one can be sure of what will happen after this week. The House will get its turn, and there are lots of anxious lawmakers on both sides who have reason to kill the bill before it kills...
Considering how often President Bush has declared education reform to be his top priority - he did it again Thursday in a speech before newspaper editors - he doesn't seem to be breaking much of a sweat to save his school plan from the quiet dismemberment it is getting at the hands of Congress. His proposal to give private-school vouchers to children in failing public schools arrived on Capitol Hill pretty much dead, thanks to Democratic opposition. And since then conservative Republicans have stripped the bill of much its attempts to make educators accountable...
...focus closely on a few priorities, a dramatic contrast from his predecessor's management style. Which is why his allies are so surprised at his detachment from what he has long declared to be his top legislative. "They delegated it," sniffs Jeanne Allen of the Center for Education Reform, a group with similar views to the Fordham Foundation. "I would have thought there at least would have been a bill [drafted by the White House] and Bush would have said if you want XYZ on taxes and Social Security or anything else, give me this on education...