Tilting at Windmills
Peters, Charles
TILTING AT WINDMILLS T A he Living Arts section of The New York Times recently ran an article called "Indiana Jones, Say Hi to Ralph Lauren" about how the yuppies are forsaking the Hamptons for...
...While that disaster was facilitated by crooks like Charles Keating, as well as by ill-considered legislation, spineless regulators, and the cover-up and conceal policies of Reagan, Bush, Baker, and Darman, the main beneficiaries remain the middle and upper income Americans who cashed in...
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...Last August, after a Hartwell HC-B4 propeller had separated in flight, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) urged the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to require inspection of all other propellers of that model...
...A noisy faction of Republicans has willfully denied this giant mistake and their own culpability for it...
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...Instead, they have incessantly poisoned the political debate with a mindless stream of anti-tax venom...
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...Derrick Bell, Faces at the Bottom of the Well "a poignant and tragicomic rendering of the horrors and terrors of black life-especially black women's life-in a bastion of elite journalism in white America...
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...Such steps must be taken if we are to have room in our prisons to keep the Hancocks there for life...
...Even after the liberation, the French national railroad authorities continued to bill local governments for the cost of transporting Jews to German concentration camps, warning that interest would be charged for any delay...
...And if you're smart, you understand what Jimmy Carter never understood about Joe Califano—that sometimes you have to accept marginal loyalty to get high ability...
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...Certainly, it severely impaired our ability to compete with Japan in the eighties as we devoted far too much of our wealth and talent to military production...
...The FAA did nothing...
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...The people in charge of public transportation don't use it...
...To be blunt, the FAA is the most gutless agency in a town where the chemistry between sold-out politicians and cautious civil servants has made the competition for that honor keen...
...The public was admitted to the trial itself...
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...If you doubt that they are needed, consider the results of a recent survey of 3,119 Ivy league undergraduates...
...C5f Speaking of the FDR era, federal employees who are griping about a pay freeze should recall that in the thirties, civil servants took a 10 to 15 percent pay cut to help the country get through the Depression...
...Record numbers of Democratic staff members on the Hill," according to The Washington Post, "have been falling all over themselves for jobs in the Clinton administration...
...The secret to understanding him is that he is either extremely arrogant or, I suspect, that he is not as secure as he seems...
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...Because a similar program—called PPBS—was tried in the sixties with more than occasionally disastrous results...
...Decisions like these worry me because they always stir up a demand for tougher and longer sentences, a demand that usually fails to make the important distinction between violent and nonviolent crime...
...Joseph P. Addabbo, then chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, Gardner said that in just one election—in 1984—he opened five campaign offices for the congressman, furnished them with equipment, and spent more than $100,000 on a private investigator to look for dirt on Addabbo's opponent...
...The FAA did nothing...
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...They were questions the White House director of administration was unable to answer: How many live bodies are currently working in the White House...
...Studs Terkel, Race "an alternately funny, sad, sexy, and always bruisingly frank depiction of the high cost of survival and success for black Americans...
...What we need is a challenging service program for thirty-, forty-, and fiftysomefhings that offers them the chance to test their mettle by doing something worthwhile...
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...The result was an explosion of what bureaucrats call the numbers game, a cynical manipulation of figures to attain stated goals...
...free television and radio time for candidates, which will eliminate the major element in the cost of campaigning...
...Good professors seldom bother with such specifics, but they try to inspire the curiosity that would lead their students to know the answers...
...That's what the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Bill Sammon discovered when he looked into how much the big shots know about the problems typical riders were encountering on Cleveland's transit system...
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...The NTSB repeated the advice in January...
...A3 ill Clinton is a man who aimed to be president from childhood...
...The Washington Post reported the CBO study, but managed to do so without mentioning Canada, so the reader would have no way of realizing that the advantages of a single payer plan were the advantages of the Canadian system...
...and a $100 limit on individual contributions to individual candidates, including themselves, which will end the power of the rich____ If you wonder why I want to get rid of paid lobbyists, consider the recent testimony of Charles Gardner about the lobbying operation he ran for Sperry and its successor, Unisys, on which he estimated $40 million was spent from the early seventies through 1988...
...The rest of the time I was taught by people like Mark Van Doren, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Lionel Trilling...
...I can't help but remember that when I was in the Kennedy administration and had to clear possible appointees, I went over to the FBI and told them the exact information we wanted to know and when we wanted to know it...
...For his key target, Rep...
...These assistants are graduate students who Anderson correctly describes as "only a step or two ahead of the students in their charge...
...By clarifying what we wanted to know about our candidates, we could clear people in six weeks or so instead of the several months that it now appears to be taking...
...The other story with broken record potential was about a bill requiring government agencies to institute a system of "performance measurement...
...This is a terrible mistake...
...There is a hazard in this that I became aware of in a recent conversation with a Clinton appointee...
...I have been wondering why our friends at The New Republic have not displayed the same ardor we have for taxing the rich...
...In 1980, the CIA reported that Soviet military expenditures were growing at a rate of 4.5 percent annually...
...Clinton is already insisting on too much loyalty to himself, insisting on proof, we have heard, of pre-Convention support...
...They didn't because they didn't join the military, which the elite has evaded for three decades...
...The military should help...
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...When her 11-year old son tried to come to his mother's aid, Hancock attacked him, causing permanent brain damage...
...But it is also true that you can appoint people simply on the basis of ability and win their loyalty by the quality of your leadership...
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...The FAA did nothing...
...Our criticism of the major media for neglecting the Canadian single payer health system may have helped inspire at least one catch-up article...
...The practice was most notorious in Vietnam where the body count was used as a measure of achievement...
...From May, 1993 Perspective...
...Or they might consider their fellow government employees of the state of Virginia, who have just endured a three-year pay freeze or those in Maryland, who are entering their third year without a cost-of-living raise and who are paid anywhere from 25 to 75 percent less than federal civil servants...
...Only a handful went to Nepal or anyplace else in the Peace Corps or any other service program...
...50 percent could not name their home state senators...
...That's one more reason why we should try to get back some of the money the rest of us had to cough up to bail out the S&Ls...
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...Too many of the regular teachers didn't know how to use the assistants or were suspicious or hostile...
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...I don't scorn political appointees...
...The trouble was that when it got down to the pros and cons, it tended towards uncritical acceptance of the cons...
...When I was there in the late forties, I had only one such person for a single one-hour class...
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...The result was that a good many women, children, water buffalo, and other innocents were "wasted" along with the more deserving members of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army...
...Where else can you read about real-world issues in intermediate-level Spanish...
...Gardner says his company got the $100 million in contracts for each million spent on lobbying, including tickets for sporting events and concerts, fancy dinners, golf games, vacations, and campaign contributions...
...A recent study by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the savings will amount to more than $14 billion...
...Cornel West, Race Matters Jill Nelson's recounting of her four turbulent years as a reporter at the Washington Post leads her to deeper reflections on her career as a radical journalist and her heritage as a child of the affluent black bourgeosie...
...But that has meant and will continue to mean a loss of jobs that can only be made up for by new equipment, new plants, and new products and services...
...The author might have mentioned evidence that a single payer system will save money compared to other proposals for national health care...
...During the jury selection process, courtrooms can be filled with prospective jurors so that excluding the public may be necessary and reasonable...
...I was once one myself and strongly believe that competence and judgment can be demonstrated as much in politics as in any other field...
...Y _ou've probably seen the ad featuring a laughing FDR ridiculing the arguments against the Rural Electrification Administration...
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...The word is that from the beginning he and Hillary were making the key personnel decisions alone...
...Even my alma mater, Columbia, has more than 600...
...But apparently Clinton, whose self-confidence seems so boundless in many areas, does not have enough confidence in his judgment of friends to delegate appointment decisions to them...
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...M artin Anderson is a conservative with whom we often disagree, but we heartily endorse his crusade against the professors at prestigious universities who turn over their teaching responsibility to teaching assistants...
...Intelligent, passionate, funny, and witheringly honest, Nelson's scathing tale of her time at the Post spares no one-least of all herself...
...One was that the national service program will emphasize the role of teachers' assistants...
...Too often, a desirable goal—finding out what a program was actually accomplishing—was implemented in a way that emphasized achievement that was numerically quantifiable...
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...At a parole hearing, his therapist testified that Hancock had not faced the problems that led to his violent behavior...
...Other items on my wish list are legislation forbidding campaign contributions to, or raising money for, a congressman by a paid lobbyist who has lobbied him, which will put the paid lobbyist out of business...
...During that period, as James Bennet pointed out in a landmark article in this magazine in September 1990, the bank was getting 4.5 percent for its loans to Mr...
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...reader recently wrote asking me to identify the leading beneficiaries of the S&L debacle...
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...In terms of who profited the most from the scandal, it was probably the millions of Americans from the middle of the middle class on up the ladder of affluence who were paying low interest on S&L mortgages dating from the fifties and sixties and who, in the first half of the eighties, invested their money in high interest CDs that had to be paid off by those savings and loans...
...Maybe they realize that readers in the market for items like the Lincoln Mark VIII, which was recently touted in a two-page, four color TNR ad, are not likely to be eager to pay more to the IRS...
...Y A. ou know how those Republican congressmen love to say the deficit was caused not by tax cuts but by overspending by Democratic congressmen...
...We tried that in the Peace Corps, and it didn't work very well...
...Franklyn D. Holzman, at Harvard's Russian Research Center, estimates the error cost $800 billion...
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...Since the legislation has broad bipartisan support, it seems to have a good chance of passing...
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...Both the defendant's attorney and the judge are still present to protect his rights...
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...Because, according to one market researcher, chic baby boomers "never really had to test their mettle...
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...Cleaver while it had to pay 12 percent on his CD...
...I am frightened by stories like "Outlook Bleak on Jobs" that appeared in The Washington Times on May 10...
...Again, I'm happy to see that Janet Reno seems to understand this difference...
...A program that once strung the line that gave your poor Aunt Sally electric light to replace her kerosene lamp and candles now serves a largely affluent public that definitely does not need a public subsidy...
...On April 19, South Dakota's governor, George S. Mickelson, and seven other people were killed in the crash of a plane using the Hartwell propeller...
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...A possible and ominous subtext was that the confirmation would be expedited if the staff member were told his employment prospects were bright...
...Overspending is an absolute myth," he says...
...6 The Washington Monthly/June 1993 Can you read some T| Try reading Perspectiva: Buried in a recent Washington Post story about White House staff cuts and congressional suspicion thereof were these sentences that must have left even the most loyal Democrat wondering...
...Reducing the fat will ultimately be good for American business and government...
...Two recent Washington stories remind me of life's familiar and lamentable tendency to be a broken record that mindlessly repeats the same mistakes...
...Stanford has 800 of them...
...L ew more revealing glimpses into the culture of bureaucracy have been afforded than this recently unearthed tidbit from France during World War II...
...44 percent did not know that Thomas Foley is Speaker of the House...
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...He then murdered her by hitting her in the head with a hammer...
...Clinton has tried to excuse his dilatory approach to making top appointments by saying that the FBI is taking several months to clear candidates...
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...As of May 1, Clinton had made only 177 of the 625 nominations to senior agency and department positions that require confirmation by the Senate...
...Still it's a good idea and we're glad to hear that it's one that Janet Reno now wants to pursue...
...Once more, on March 4, the NTSB warned "Separation of a blade...
...Did you know that New York's Landmark Preservation Committee has ruled that trees can't be planted in SoHo because there were no trees there when the neighborhood developed a century ago...
...He had called a staff member on the congressional committee that is handling his confirmation to see how it was progressing only to be told that the staff member was seeking a job under him...
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...What can make the difference in implementing programs like PPBS is making sure the goals are the right ones and checking up on just how the goals are attained...
...How can I have misgivings about such a laudable idea...
...As a headline, "FAA Ignored Warnings" has about the same surprise quality as "Corruption Alleged in Teamsters Union...
...A pro-REA group paid for the ad, and like most lobbying ads, it is misleading...
...He waited longer to nominate a new head of the FAA than any new president since the agency was established in 1958...
...If Newt Gingrich and his playmates had the parental supervision they deserve, they would be sent to the nearest corner wherein to lodge their Pinocchio-sized noses until this adult task of raising taxes is finished...
...Speaking of World War II, the single most powerful argument against intervention in Bosnia I have heard is that the largely Serb-led resistance was fierce enough to tie down 26 Axis divisions for three years...
...Why not cut out most of the costs of the program by concentrating on Aunt Sallies who really need it and eliminating the Aspens and Vails that are now getting subsidies they definitely do not need...
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...Three years later that figure was revised downward to 2 percent...
...The court also recently upheld reversal of the conviction of a man a jury had found guilty of murdering a 19-year old girl solely on the ground that the public, including the murderer's mother, had been barred from the court room during jury selection...
...How about going into the ghetto at night to tutor disadvantaged children...
...I also believe that a president needs a reasonable number of appointees whose loyalty to his programs is beyond question...
...Written by a respected reporter, Robin Toner, and headlined, "Realistic and Outmuscled, Advocates of Canadian Health Care Plan Fight On," the article, in The New York Times, seemed sympathetic...
...TILTING AT WINDMILLS T A he Living Arts section of The New York Times recently ran an article called "Indiana Jones, Say Hi to Ralph Lauren" about how the yuppies are forsaking the Hamptons for mountain climbing in Nepal...
...A lot of people needed the REA badly in FDR's time, but few need it today...
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...This put pressure on our soldiers to shoot anything that moved in order to build up the count...
...Maybe a teacher's assistant program could work, but it's wise for Clinton's national service people to study why the Peace Corps failed before implementing their own...
...The root problem goes back to the July 1981 frenzy of excessive and imprudent tax-cutting that shattered the nation's fiscal stability...
...We are told that he has this grand agenda for his presidency, but it's now clear that he had devoted little thought towards choosing the people who could carry it out...
...Q eventeen years ago, Clarence Hancock sexually assaulted a Maryland woman...
...At least in the case of his friends, he is not confident enough in his judgment of their ability to choose others to permit them to make these choices...
...That sped up the process enormously, because without a clearly defined task, agents are inclined to spend too much time burrowing for facts that are not essential...
...The reasoning seems to be that since the masses suffered without shade then, they should continue to suffer today...
...Charles Peters VOLUNTEER SLAVERY My Authentic Negro Experience Jill Nelson "a witty, endearing memoir about an African-American family and an insightful reflection on the obsession with race in America...
...La policfa de Nueva York detuvo a un supuesto integrista islamico, Mohamed Salameh From March, 1993 Perspectiva...
...Unfortunately, the high figure had already helped inspire the tremendous growth in American military spending under Ronald Reagan...
...What did work well—with careful selection, training, and placement (see page 24)—were programs in which volunteers actually taught in secondary schools...
...How many paid consultants are employed by the president...
...From April, 1993 Perspectiva magazine -Nacionai: El atentado contra las Torres Gemelas de Manhattan caus6 cinco muertos y m?s de mil heridos...
...This was obviously a formula for disaster...
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...David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's OMB director from 1981 to 1985, recently addressed their claim in an article for Global Viewpoint...
...One official who lived only a block from one rapid transit station and works only a block from another explained why he chooses his Cadillac instead: "I just have a love affair with the automobile...
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...There are too few really able men and women around and far too few of them are interested in government work, so a political litmus test is stupidly restrictive...
...She is, according to The New York Times, taking the first step toward eliminating long mandatory sentences for the low-level drug crimes such as possession of small amounts of narcotics...
...Why with all that time to prepare didn't he know about such weak links as the FAA and have a plan and the people—at least for the top jobs—ready to put it into place on Inauguration Day...
...One would have thought that all the FOBs we heard about during the campaign would have provided a sufficient universe of potential appointees, or if not, that they would have been able to recommend enough qualified people from their own universes...
...From May, 1993 Perspective...
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...Finally in May, two months after the third warning, and a month after the crash, he got around to nominating David R. Hinson as administrator...
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