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Nine months ago, the appointment of Tom Ridge as Homeland Security czar was billed as the shake-up Washington needed. So far, he has been more of a mild foot stamp than an earthquake. Instead of real reform, the Administration has resorted to its usual mode: attempting to control warring satrapies from the White House. The remarkable aspect of last week's events in Washington was the unintended revelation that Rice is the true manager of counterterrorism policy. In the past, the National Security Council got into trouble when it adopted an operational role rather than one of analysis (think...
Harvard has been fiddling with its lineup in the weeks since the Georgetown race. The Crimson hoped that a shake-up would infuse the boats with speed and excitement. But the cost of new lineups is rowers that are still getting used to rowing together...
...self-conscious eclecticism that has become a rock clich?. That may be wishful thinking - "O Brother Where Art Thou" is most likely a second "Buena Vista Social Club," an anomaly everybody has to own rather than the harbinger of a trend - but popular music is due for a shake-up, and right now the best new ideas are coming out of rock that's just rock...
...same bill has been proposed in the Senate, but it is snarled in a procedural squabble that could delay a vote for another month. INS Commissioner James W. Ziglar tried to quell the revolt in part by joining it. Calling the visa fiasco "unacceptable," he announced a major shake-up, reassigning four senior officials. He too favors separating the agency's enforcement unit from its immigration side. But that might not be enough to placate Sensenbrenner, who wants Ziglar's scalp...
Jill E. Stein ’73, the Green Party gubernatorial candidate, expressed dismay at the Republican shake...