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...cobbled together from the ruins of the freight railroads' dying passenger business in 1971, Amtrak has chugged through $23 billion in federal funds and been plagued by an entrenched bureaucracy, pork-barrel politics, high labor costs and stagnant ridership--all the things, in short, you might expect from a state-run monopoly...
This is a controversial idea. When Newt Gingrich in 1994 advocated bringing back state-run orphanages for children most at risk of becoming criminals, he was ridiculed and called a racist. But since then, a movement toward residential learning has been quietly gaining steam--and often wins support from the parents of troubled youth. Residential schools focusing on needy children have opened in Philadelphia, West Trenton, N.J., and Washington, and three pilot programs have started in Minnesota...
...This is a controversial idea. When Newt Gingrich in 1994 advocated bringing back state-run orphanages for children most at risk of becoming criminals, he was ridiculed and called a racist. But since then, a movement toward residential learning has been quietly gaining steam - and often wins support from the parents of troubled youth. Residential schools focusing on needy children have opened in Philadelphia, West Trenton, N.J., and Washington, and three pilot programs have started in Minnesota...
...advantage in the electorate, however, Kostunica's victory is far from certain. Milosevic is preparing to commit fraud on a level never seen before. Electoral committees are state-controlled and DOS can do little to ensure the legitimacy of the election process. The regime will eliminate the opposition supporters from the lists of eligible voters while allowing its supporters to vote under several names. Employees of state-run enterprises will receive pre-filled voting slips in advance. As if that was not enough, Milosevic is ready to openly steal the votes of the Kosovo Albanians, who will not participate...
...into Brigadier Stephen Saunders, Britain's top military envoy to Athens, 17 November rang the cell phone of an Eleftherotypia staff writer. Apparently the terrorists were aware that police had, for the first time ever, tapped the newspaper's telephones. "If this leak isn't proof of collusion between state-run authorities and members of 17 November," says an intelligence expert too scared to be named, "then I don't know what...