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...College will have to wait for more updated polling results to see if the heavy investment in social and academic reform will result in higher student satisfaction...
...debate over Social Security reform has unfolded over the past few months, there has been much discussion about Social Security’s coming financial crisis, and with good cause...
...aggressiveness with accommodation, Wojtyla managed to build a huge church for 100,000 Catholic citizens in the industrial city of Nova Huta and reach out to a wide cross section of workers, youths and intellectuals. Yet what turned a provincial prince into a rising church star was the churchwide reform of Vatican II. At the Second Vatican Council (1961-65), Wojtyla contributed to several key documents, most notably on the church in the modern world, at one point causing an observer to make note of his "magnetic power" and "prophetic strength." But Wojtyla declined to embrace change uncritically, prefiguring...
...overseeing intelligence reform will fall to President's Bush's Director of National Intelligence, former ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte, who should be confirmed by the Senate soon. The new intelligence czar, a post created by Congress partly on the recommendation of the 9/11 Commission, will oversee the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies, some of which will continue to report to their traditional bureaucracies as well . The Justice Dept., for example, will continue to work closely with the FBI on its law enforcement functions, while DIA will continue to function...
...final avenue of appeal. There was President Bush, for the first time cutting short a rest at his ranch to sign a bill. Top Republican staffers on Capitol Hill told TIME that it took some lobbying by congressional Republican leaders, who Bush needs for his controversial Social Security reform and budget cuts, for the President to return on short notice in such a visible role. There were members of Congress, including some physicians like Senate majority leader Frist, earning the derision of the medical community by voicing their own views of Schiavo's condition based on little more than court...