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Whtte You Were Away Like a company announcing its bankruptcy in the back of the classifieds, the New York Times, when forced to make public amends for past mistakes, does so as inconspicuously as...
...She previously toiled for Bob Packwood, a longtime moderate, and was a close ideological ally of Bob Dole's moderate chief of staff, Sheila Burke (the two collaborated in 1995 to help scotch some of the welfare-reform proposals supported by conservatives...
...Whtte You Were Away Like a company announcing its bankruptcy in the back of the classifieds, the New York Times, when forced to make public amends for past mistakes, does so as inconspicuously as possible...
...Texas Republicans are understandably exercised over this, since the tentacles of the Legal Services Corporation are supposedly prohibited from extending to partisan activity...
...Anyone under the mistaken impression that the conservative crusade ever got anywhere should note the latest suit of Texas Rural Legal Aid (TRLA...
...Roth recently moved to provide some balance on the committee by appointing two conservatives, Frank Polk and Joan Woodward, to senior Finance Committee positions...
...Imagine having teachers who speak standard classroom English flailing about in some really bad version of a standardized black English...
...And the word is that President Clinton won't fight too strenuously for confirmation...
...was the rallying cry of conservatives in the early Reagan years who had high hopes of taking out the Legal Services Corporation—a high-minded-sounding federal agency that had veered from low-glamour work like representing the indigent in divorce court to the more exciting challenge of using class-action litigation to achieve left-wing political goals that the electorate had mulishly refused to approve legislatively...
...In states where the committee member owes fealty to the sitting governor, this has garnered some new commitments...
...He's tied to the White House...
...Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, the new chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, suspects as much, though he says he won't decide on Lake until after confirmation hearings...
...As for the man whose broken-down car brought Pulitzer winner Rick Bragg close to weeping, the Times reassures us now that "the transmission on James E. Sharlow's Mercedes does not slip anymore...
...As one of his Tammany Hall cronies said: What's the Constitution among friends...
...If they end up speaking ebonics as badly as teachers who learn a little 'professional Spanish,' I cringe to think of the consequences...
...Paull also successfully lobbied (with a few others) for a temporary Medicare premium increase during last year's budget showdown—a "good government" proposal that congressional Republicans now point to as one of their most misguided efforts of the past two years...
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...RNC members are being summoned to the mansions of their respective governors, where they are finding not just their own governor but Merrill, there to lobby for himself...
...He didn't inform Congress when the administration winked at Iranian aid to Bosnia...
...And as always, the most important work will be carried out by the staff...
...The stumbling block is that each candidate sees himself as top dog, and none wants to back out...
...Last November, a couple of Republicans were elected county commissioner and county sheriff in the Texas precinct containing Laughlin Air Force Base...
...Shelby told Fox News Channel that integrity, independence, and "being forthcoming and not duplicitous" are what a CIA director needs...
...That same day, Patricia J. Williams of Columbia Law School loudly defended "ebonics," but warned of one serious problem: the inability of white teachers to speak black...
...What troubles Williams about the Oakland proposal is "the reported plan to teach the city's teachers not only the structure and history of ebonics but also how to speak it...
...Though her boss Sen...
...How come...
...An attempt is also being made to add Colorado committeeman Jim Nicholson to this group...
...But Lake shouldn't get his hopes up...
...Over the holidays, the Times's editors seemed to be using the absence of their many vacationing readers to dump all the most embarrassing articles they had stockpiled and— for one reason or another—could not bring themselves to dispose of privately...
...Fish ruefully admitted it was hard to argue for affirmative action in principle...
...Bravely, however, Williams suppressed her doubts and urged that, on the chance the federal government could be snookered for a few million, the Oakland school board should just "go for it...
...Lake may fall short of Shelby's standards on all three...
...about 800 absentee ballots came in from servicemen...
...His solution: Discard principle...
...First there was Duke University English professor Stanley Fish's day-after-Christmas op-ed...
...Making matters worse, Lake recently declared he's not sure whether Alger Hiss was guilty...
...However, in many states the committee member's tenure precedes the governor's, and the committee member doesn't like the surprise meettScrapbook nient dumping place for Lake, whom Clinton no longer wanted as his national security adviser after four years...
...One unfortunate, whose woes were chronicled in the series, is still trapped in his six-figure chief-financial-officer post, to which he commutes by private plane...
...These four candidates have enough committed delegates to put together the necessary votes to elect a new chairman...
...His success with this approach is less than complete...
...This local chapter of the Legal Services machine has shamelessly gone to court for two Democratic politicians who lost elections in which absentee ballots from military personnel provided the margins of victory...
...One won by 113 votes, the other by 267 votes...
...George Washington Plunkitt, however, would not have been surprised...
...No one doubts Paull's expertise on fiscal issues, and it is precisely her mastery of the tax code and her institutional memory that may allow her to adversely influence internal debates...
...To thwart Merrill, talks continue between the self-described "outsider" campaigns of Texas chairman Tom Pauken, Ohio chairman Bob Bennett, and Michigan committeeman Chuck Yob about an alliance...
...Let's stop asking, 'Is it fair or is it reverse racism?'" Fish wrote, "and start asking, 'Does it work and are there better ways of doing what needs to be done?'" Three days later, the Times did a follow-up on its voluminous sky-is-falling "Downsizing" series of last spring, and found that most of those cast from their jobs, ostensibly by the cruel hand of global competition, have—out of the blue, according to the article—found new jobs at similar pay...
...That has ardent tax-cutters in the party fretting over the resume of Lindy Paull, staff director of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee...
...William Roth was the Senate's first supply-sider, snipers say Paull's Capitol Hill tenure puts her outside the free-market tent...
...The TRLA has challenged the results in federal district court on grounds that the absentee military ballots were somehow improper...
...They're Back . . . ing...
...The New Haley Barbour Outgoing New Hampshire governor Steve Merrill—the only major contender for the Republican party chairmanship who is not a member of the national committee— is pursuing a "gubernatorial" strategy to round up the support of the 83 members needed to win the RNC's Jan...
...Woebegone Lake_ The nomination of Anthony Lake as director of the CIA is in big-time trouble...
...Several members have drawn the conclusion that if Merrill wins, the governors will be consulted first on political decisions by the RNC, not the state chairmen...
...The CIA was merely a conveHT \efund the Left...
...The New Shetla Burke Congressional Republicans say tax relief will be a top priority this year...
Vol. 2 • January 1997 • No. 17
