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...think it's a good thing that we're thinking about electoral reform. The dirty secret of American politics is that for a long time we've run elections in an amateurish way. The processes being used are totally outdated," she said...

Author: By Andrew J. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Supreme Court Weighs Bush's Appeal | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...Education. One big reason: the fund has been a favorite Bush-family charity since the days of W.'s grandfather Prescott. But when I talked to Gray last week, he made it clear that he's not interested. He is opposed to key elements of Bush's education-reform proposals, especially vouchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Toms Need Apply | 12/3/2000 | See Source »

...plot slows down considerably, yet this is made up for by a series of scenes showing the four starring women sitting around the kitchen table, nursing their neuroses and trying to set their family right. During this time, Mary Ann outs Elizabeth as a lesbian, Nora tries to reform Mary Ann with elaborate guilt trips about motherhood and Elizabeth frantically searches for any household product that can give her a quick high. The current of hostility running between the three sisters is sharp and well done. Less convincing are the few sentimental moments, as the chemistry between Gail (Alex Cooley...

Author: By Irina Serbanescu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Domestic Insanity in the Ex | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

Vicente Fox Posada's biggest enemy might, perhaps, be his people's high expectations of a new political order in Mexico. But the mammoth odds against his efforts to reform his country's torpid economic and political system give him a Quixotic sheen, which has everyone from the poorest peasants in Oaxaca to the most worldly wise diplomats in Mexico City ready to extend him a generous line of political credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Ushers in a New Day | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

...While both conferences are models of what college athletics should be, Feinstein commented that there is not much that schools like Harvard can do to reform the NCAA...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Small Leagues Can Save Big-Time College Athletics | 11/30/2000 | See Source »

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