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...Blair wanted to reward Beckett for her unflashy competence. Straw already had five years in the job and had been aiming to lead the Commons - though not quite yet. The source stressed the importance of Straw's new job, which includes cleaning up the election-funding system and finishing reform of the House of Lords. But many insiders viewed the demotion as a move by Blair to wrest even more power away from the Foreign Office, especially over Europe policy. This chimes with suspicions that Blair is trying to create a de facto but supercharged Prime Minister's department, allowing...
Last September, Clinton and adviser Ira Magaziner--one of the architects of the ill-fated 1994 health-care-reform plan--began approaching food and beverage companies about voluntarily controlling what they sell to kids. Of all the unhealthy foods students consume, sugary beverages were the obvious place to start. First of all, kids drink tons of the stuff. The average 11-to-14-year-old consumes almost twice as much soda as water; 15-to-19-year-olds pour down an average of two 12-oz. servings of soda every day--in the process consuming 1.5 lbs. of sugar each...
...agency that Goss had been named to run, Goss had nowhere to turn. The agency's normally loyal allies on Capitol Hill could not help him fight back because nearly all the lawmakers on the intelligence-oversight committees believed, if anything, that Negroponte wasn't moving fast enough with reform...
...since drawn fire from experts in various fields—mostly for the inequity of its effects, they say.“The Higher Education Act is a barrier to education that primarily punishes working-class Americans,” says Adam Wolf, staff attorney for the ACLU Drug Reform Project. The ACLU claims that the provision hurts students of lower economic status, those who would most need federal financial aid. A list of organizations as diverse as the New York Times Editorial Board, the American Council on Education, and the Presbyterian Church have declared their opposition to the penalty.The...
...failed to achieve the necessary threshold for passage,” according to Haddock’s e-mail.Since Greenfield’s amendment isn’t binding, it appears that, under the UC constitution, the bylaws can still be changed by simple majority vote. And the reform of the nondiscrimination provision would have passed that threshold.When Haddock ruled Monday that the Student Group Non-Discrimination Act would require a two-thirds, rather than simple, majority, proponents of the bill—including Greenfield himself—questioned this ruling.Monday’s meeting became heated as council members...