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...Plan for Prosperity In "The Face of Reform" [May 31], you correctly stated that India's new Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, faces immense challenges in his bid to improve the lot of India's rural poor. The government's efforts are diluted because of the vast issues they address. My humble suggestion is for the government to focus on four points: 1) limiting the birthrate in the rural population to just two children per family; 2) improving literacy among the rural population, particularly children; 3) promoting hygienic living habits; 4) increasing employment and business opportunities to supplement the country...
...intensity of his feelings on that subject tends to put everything else--the substantive achievements and the embarrassments like the pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich--on the back burner. He spends very little time in the book discussing the intricacies of domestic issues like health care, welfare reform and even his triumphant economic policy. He spends more time on foreign affairs, especially the failed Middle East peace negotiations. Though he has said he would have liked to take a "mulligan," or do-over, for the Rich pardon, he defends it here: "I may have made a mistake, at least...
...President, you maybe get 20 seconds on television four nights a week. And I had come to realize that for me, on a scale of 1 to 10, a 10 answer on Whitewater was not nearly as good as a 7 answer on education or welfare reform or trade or something that related to the American people. Because if [Whitewater] was the only message they got, they would conclude that that's all I was doing. I don't blame you [in the media]; what...
Ralph Nader should be lauded for his unwavering resolve to reform what he sees as a plagued and corrupt political system [May 31]. Although supporters of John Kerry have the right to assume that Nader "spoiled" the 2000 election, the state chairman of Arizona's Democratic Party is absurd when he says the 2004 election is only "about George Bush and John Kerry." To deny Nader, who is running as an independent candidate, a place on the ballot is dangerous to the electoral system. Furthermore, voters who support Nader should resist claims that a vote for Nader is a vote...
...Meanwhile, an intelligence heavyweight last week entered the fray with a new reform proposal that is already gathering high-level attention. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss - a former CIA clandestine services officer and leading contender for CIA director if President Bush is re-elected - quietly introduced a bill that would significantly expand the CIA director's executive and management authority over the whole intelligence community, a Goss spokesman confirmed to TIME. While the Director of Central Intelligence has responsibility for all intelligence gathering, more than 80 percent of the spy budget is outside the CIA's control, much...