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...town-hall meetings around the country to hear federal employees bewail the silly rules they work % under and the money they fritter away. Gore has recruited a full-time staff of 200 mostly young aides (supplemented by about 800 part-timers from inside and outside government), who have torn into their job with remarkable zest. The atmosphere last week in their workshop, a second-story suite above a McDonald's restaurant, was reminiscent of a campaign headquarters days before election: young aides sat on the floor surrounded by piles of paper while phones rang constantly...
...Philadelphia family lawyer and chairwoman- elect of the family-law section of the American Bar Association. "You're looking at a 13-year-old child in the middle of a bitter custody fight," she says. "These children are the least reliable witnesses of all, because they're being torn between pleasing two parents. They're trying to protect themselves. Often children side with one parent or the other and say what that parent wants to hear...
...quietly providing the same service to some other former Soviet republics that have asked for it: Georgia is not the only one being torn apart by a brutal combination of ethnic separatism, factional fighting and tensions between locals and Russians. The U.S. has a strong interest in tamping down the conflicts. "If they are left unsettled," says a senior U.S. official, "they will threaten reform in the new republics, and Russia itself...
...drool over the alluring brochures. Ah, the pristine beaches. Elegant cafes. Spectacular mountain scenery. It all sounds great. Then you look at the fine print: the beaches are in the poverty-racked Gaza Strip, the cafes in bombed-out Dubrovnik, the mountains in war-torn eastern Turkey. They have got to be kidding...
Foster's note now confronts America as something larger, something more flagrantly unsavory. In the 27 torn pieces of his final statement, a fragmented idealism emerges. The note exposes an individual whose integrity has been polluted...