Word: wagnerism
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...OTHER PANELISTS: Richard Guarasci, provost and senior vice president, Wagner College; George Kuh, chancellor's professor and director of the National Survey of Student Engagement, Indiana University, Bloomington; Cecilia Lopez, associate director of the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools; Roberta Matthews, provost and vice president for academic affairs, Brooklyn College; and Kay McClenney, senior associate of the Pew Forum on Undergraduate Learning...
Here is a parenting parable for our age. Carla Wagner, 17, of Coral Gables, Fla., spent the afternoon drinking the tequila she charged on her American Express Gold Card before speeding off in her high-performance Audi A4. She was dialing her cell phone when she ran over Helen Marie Witty, a 16-year-old honor student who was out Rollerblading. Charged with drunken driving and manslaughter, Carla was given a trial date--at which point her parents asked the judge whether it would be O.K. if Carla went ahead and spent the summer in Paris, as she usually does...
...FERC takes another month after that, and the three Bush appointees on the five-member committee do what they were nominated to do and give the benefit of the doubt to the invisible hand. Cut a deal like Wagner had in mind - a little victory for both sides. Bush gets another winning setback...
...This one's a little more explosive. First, the calendar: Wagner has seven days to submit his formal report to Chairman Curt L. Hebert, a Bush appointee, and the rest of the five-man FERC board. Three more of whom are Bush appointees. If, as seems likely, the FERC bosses take Wagner's advice about getting a better class of advice and holds the hearing, that's another 60 days on top of that. At which point the FERC can start think about offering a decision...
...generators were publicly philosophical about Wagner's mixed bag, and seem resigned to the fact that the law always tries to take a bite. But as Davis gets his lawyers together at the border, they must know that Davis isn't after a negotiated settlement - he wants to hit them for the whole $20 billion, total surrender, with all the voters watching...