TITING AT WINDMILLS

...In addition to Rabin, another recent example comes from Burundi, where the Roman Catholic Archbishop Joachim Ruhuna stood up to the murderers on both sides, the Hutu as well as his fellow Tutsi: “Let me warn the killers and those who sent them: your crimes are the shame of humanity...

...The distinction is important...

...Thank goodness the C& cartel isn’t listed on The New York Stock Exchange, for you would surely put it on your “buy” list...

...THE LIST OF EGOMANIACS 1 HAW known is long...

...After six weeks 120 of the letters had not been answered...

...It reminded me that, much as we all like to make fun of Morris, much of his advice was sound...

...So on the eve of the Fed’s big decision, ABC told a story that was not only one-sided, but was not true for the country as a whole...

...My checkered past also includes brief careers in the theater and politics, both worlds where selfeffacement is not the rule...

...But the people urging that this distinction be made-so that, for example, in downsizing we make sure to keep the best-tend to be conservative Republicans like Rep...

...IF YOU THINK PUBLIC EMPLOYEES are underpaid, take a look at Prince George’s County, Md., where at least 10 employees make over $96,000...

...I have spent most of my adult life among the celebrity stars of journalism...

...Jamieson’s report focused entirely on the shortage of workers in the St...

...Tilting at Windmills BY CHARLES PETERS A New Soulmate The Cali Cartel as a Buy More on Mrs...

...So is the distinction between outstanding and average performers among civil servants...

...Of course not...

...Two agenciesthe Human Resources Administration was one-ignored every single letter they received, including offers to donate items such as books and Little League uniforms...

...Rabin was tough, but finally he wanted peace more than he wanted to be tough...

...GAMBLINCAGS INOS KTTH DAYCARE...

...Jesus, Jim, that “heavy hand” has been trying to protect its citizens from lung cancer and heart disease...

...Bill Clinton is an example...

...But at least, you assume, these well-paid executives are willing to work long hours to serve the public...

...Their record is even worse than males in the 16-to-24 group, who most of us are accustomed to considering the most dangerous...

...The Fed had to decide if there was a sufficient threat of inflation to justify raising rates even though doing so might put the economy on the road to recession...

...Those of us who disagreed pointed to periods in our history when full employment and low inflation had co-existed, and pointed out that today, foreign competition and weak unions are both compelling factors in restraining wages and prices...

...A RECENT POLL SEEMS M ANSWER A question that has sorely troubled American education in recent decades: Should we teach Hispanic children in Spanish or English...

...Not assuming virtue in every view of the public employees’ unions is one example...

...ABC chose to present just one side on the eve of the Fed meeting...

...Said Leno, with a puzzled expression on his face, “Now, she’s Bob‘s second wife...

...A poll of 600 randomly selected Hispanic parents conducted by the Center for Equal Opportunity found that 81 percent wanted their children’s academic courses to be taught in English...

...The reason the Fed may raise rates,” said Jennings as he introduced a report by Bob Jainieson from St...

...We need good people to choose public school teaching as a career and to stick with it...

...No, not at all...

...MY FELLOW LIBEIWLS, MOST ESPEcially those who are members of, or enjoy the electoral support of, public employees’ unions, tend to argue that all public employees are underpaid...

...How can we expect them to do so when we don’t give them the chance to work in safety...

...SHOULDA MAJOR TELEVISION NEWS show run a one-sided segment on either Clinton or Dole as its sole political coverage the night before the election...

...The attraction of Philip Morris is intellectual and emotional...

...In Guatemala, the story was even worse: They overthrew a democratically elected government and installed a military junta that has for more than 40 years demonstrated a pronounced proclivity for murder and mayhem in its dedicated suppression of human rights...

...Those lawsuits are by people who are dying because they used the products of that wonderful company...

...AFTER THE GUN BATTLE BETWEEN Israeli troops and Palestinian police in September, Jimmy Carter found a gentle way of expressing my opinion of Benjamin Netanyahu: “He has not followed up in any sort of enthusiastic, accommodating, or generous way in building on what Rabin and Peres have left for him...

...So why don’t they provide the military force or at least reimburse us for their proportionate share of the expense of providing it for them...

...THEI NTERNARLE VENUES ERvice’s grand ambition to allow taxpayers to file returns directly from their personal computers to IFS centers via the Internet has gone off line for the foreseeable future,” reports Ralph Vartabedian in the Los Angeles Times...

...Department of Agriculture that is subject to floodingl’h addition, “the computer room had doors with locks installed backwards, meaning they could be easily breached, and sprinkler pipes hung so low that workers had to squat...

...HER name is Mary Ann Lindley, a columnist for the Tallahassee Democrat...

...On a Monday afternoon in late September Ruhuna’s car was attacked and burned...

...Strong pressure to raise rates was coming from many conservative economists, including, according to one leak from inside the Fed itself, eight of the Fed’s 12 regional banks’ presidents...

...Louis, “is its concern about inflation, especially in the work place...

...We may not provide it for a welfare mother who wants to work, but if she wants to cash in her welfare check for gambling chips, the casinos will provide her with bargain daycare where, according to October 21 Newweek the kids can frolic among “mountains of Lego and Duplo blocks,” “a maze of tunnels and slides,” television screens aglow with kiddie classics, and “a kid's cafe for snacking...

...Commuters are discovering that ferries are more appealing than the crowded trains and buses, and traffic-clogged highways, bridges, and tunnels...

...The decision to pull the plug on electronic tax filing came after the General Accounting Office found the Cyberfile system had 49 physical and electronic security weaknesses...

...WHY DO WE PAY THE COST OF PROtecting Middle East oil when we get only 10 percent of the oil we use from there...

...As David Stout wrote recently in The New York Times, “La Guardia believed that government had a sacred duty to protect the unfortunate,” a sacred duty we shouldn’t forget as we try, I think rightly, to end the subsidized idleness that is demoralizing so many recipients of welfare...

...Of the varieties of egomaniacs, I like the politicians best...

...Inside in tiny print was ‘Quit...

...It is a strength that I’m confident will play an important role in what I expect to be his reelection this month...

...In Iran they installed the Shah-an accomplishment that history has not chosen to honor...

...As a mutual fund investor, you could be forgiven for inadvertently acquiring shares in a fund that owned shares in a tobacco company, but to recommend the conscious purchase of stock in a company that deals in death is beyond the pale...

...The trouble with this report is that it’s not true of the rest of the country...

...Yes, but my fascination transcends a mere lust for money...

...Japan, 50 percent...

...Carrie Meek, who says the proposed preference for the outstanding “will reduce the number of African Americans in the federal workforce...

...It’s a stock that has everything: huge profits, sin, death, politics, fierce legal battles and superb management...

...A recent example comes from New York City, where a team of city council staff, according to a story by Vivian S. Toy of The New York Times, “drafted 173 letters with hypothetical complaints, questions or offers of help” which they then asked citizens to sign and send to 21 different city agencies...

...The owners and editors of the Post should be embarrassed to publish such advice...

...His body hasn’t been found, but according to a report by a correspondent of Time magazine, “The killers almost surely threw the archbishop’s body into the nearby Mubarazi river, the way they have disposed of countless other victims...

...Another picture of Mrs...

...And we must take care of those who truly cannt work...

...Those who resist preference for the outstanding tend to be liberal Democrats like Rep...

...That’s why all those Help Wanted signs could mean higher inflation is on the way...

...In the District of Columbia, the case of a hit and run driver who had severely injured a student had not even begun to be investigated by the D.C...

...In West Virginia recently a man who had been convicted 11 times for drunken driving was let off with just two to six years in jail on a plea bargain which also resulted in the dropping of felony charges against him for threatening people with guns...

...The teacher had intervened upon seeing the student, according to The Washington Post, ‘‘kickmg lockers, throwing books, and acting in an abusive way to another teacher...

...FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION dollars will have been spent in campaign advertising spots during the fall election season, estimates Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia...

...But ABC’s Peter Jennings did something similar the night before the Federal Reserve Board’s crucial September 24 vote on whether to raise interest rates...

...This is a case where I’m 100 percent with the teachers’ unions who are trying to protect their members from violence...

...But they’re all paupers compared to the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, where 72 employees make more than $125,000...

...But we should have known the Monthly is no match for the forces of snobbery...

...ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THE SHAMEful history of the CIA has been written in Iraq with the failed plot against Saddam...

...Netanyahu seems just to want to be tough...

...This sensible question was asked recently in an op-ed piece in The New York Times by Lawrence Korb, a former assistant secretary of defense who is now at the Brookings Institution...

...JAY LENO’SR ESPONSE TO THE CAMpaign ad in which Liddy Dole extolls her husband’s character- “when Bob Dole commits to something, he sticks with it”-was a classic...

...One of Clinton’s greatest weaknesses is his tendency to become defensive, a tendency that unfortunately is shared by his wife...

...WE HAVE CRITICIZED THE INCREASing conservatism of The Washington Post‘s Business section and of its leading columnist, James K. Glassman...

...Their main argument was that rising employment was causing wages to rise, which would in turn produce high prices...

...Welfare reform, as Michelle Cottle points out in this issue, can be a great triumph, but it can also be a great disaster if we don't carry it out wisely...

...He is one of the great listeners of the Western world...

...Or consider Fairfax County, Va., where 24 employees make more than $100,000 each...

...Astor appeared in the paper’s Sunday, September 22 edition...

...According to The New York Times, one passenger said of the ferry ride, “It puts you in a state of tranquility, and you need peace of mind when going to work...

...Astor A Comeback for Ferries A Kind Word for Dick Morris THERE WAS A MOMENT IN LATE September when Bill Clinton seemed to be becoming too involved in answering Dole’s charges-eg., that he is a liberaland Dick Morris complained to a Washington Post reporter that Clinton was forgetting to be presidential as he got “absorbed in the daily give and take of campaign rhetoric...

...In Oakton, Va., a teacher who had received a death threat from a student was told by the school authorities that the student would remain in the school but that the teacher could be transferred...

...Elsewhere, wages are not rising in a way that threatens inflation...

...The reason is that they have learned to listen, if only to get elected...

...John Mica...

...SHOmING THE GOOD GUYS SEEMS to have become a habit...

...There is no question in my mind, that after Morris became his guru, Clinton showed less of this defensiveness than he had in his first two years in the White House and that he was more presidential, more a man the American people could begin to be proud of...

...If they work overtime in Fairfax County, they’re entitled to “comp time,” compensatory leave equal to their overtime...

...Would I buy Philip Morris if I owned individual stocks...

...Oakton faculty members told the Post, “weapons, drugs, and student violence are becoming an increasing safety hazard for teachers...

...According to a Department of Education survey, more than 1 in 10 public school teachers have been ‘physically assaulted at some time by students...

...When I expressed curiosity as to whether the agency was worth having around, I was told, “Of course, look what they did in Iran and Guatemala...

...Among them, “the central computer for Cyberfile was located in a dusty subbasement of the U.S...

...If I were an African-American civil servant I would be insulted by the congresswoman’s lack of confidence in my ability...

...When we asked the folks at ABC if they saw anything wrong with what they had done, they said no...

...Ten years from now-as I stand in line waiting to be testedI’ll be kicking myself for having said this, but it does seem to make sense...

...We abandoned scores if not hundreds of Kurdish agents to their deaths...

...When we asked the folks at ABC if they saw anything wrong with what they had done, they said no...

...DID YOU KNOW THAT TI-IE RATE 01: driver death is highest for men 80 and older...

...Everyone who can work, should work...

...But even we weren’t prepared for Glassman’s glowing endorsement of Philip Morris in the Post‘s September 29 edition...

...Once I saw a greeting card that said ‘How to be a happy lawyer,”’ began one of her recent columns...

...h T H 0 U G H MY HEART is usually liberal, as regular readers know, I sometimes see merit in conservative positions...

...Crime is another...

...I came to Washington just after the Bay of Pigs disaster, which did not make the CIA look very competent...

...But of course they run cigarette ads, don’t they...

...Ninety percent of them are negative, a threefold increase over the 1960s...

...Western Europe gets 30 percent of its oil from the Middle East...

...IF YOU’RE A F A i i OF FERRIES, AS 1 AM, you’ll be delighted to know they’re malung a big comeback around New York City...

...Recently a presidential advisory panel confirmed, according to The Washington Post, “that the CIA employed multiple informants in the Guatemalan government and military forces over the past decade who agency officials knew [italics supplied] were involved in assassinations, torture, kidnappings and murder in that country...

...OF course...

...Louis area and the high wages and bonuses that were being offered- $2 above the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 an hour for carpenters and $60,000 a year for engineers-concluding: “When employers across such varied industries have to raise wages just to find workers, they’ll no doubt soon raise prices...

...THERAERE SOME NOBLE WORDS IN the constitution of the state of New York, put there in 1938 as the result of the efforts of that little giant Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, words that should guide all of us in thinking about how to implement and change, j if necessary, the welfare reform law: “The aid, care, and support of the needy are public concerns and should be provided by the state...

...The chief maintenance officer, who in an era of less exalted titles might have been called the head janitor, is paid $163,800...

...Glassman praised the company for averaging a 25.6 annual return since 1981 “despite lawsuits and the heavy hand of government...

...Some are, but many are not...

...AFTER CHIDING THE STYLES SECtion of The New York Times in our May issue for running so many photographs of Brooke Astor, we hoped the editors of that great paper would restrain their social sycophancy for a while...

...Why not require annual road tests and physical exams for men who want to drive after their 80th birthdays...

...I believe in being tough on people whose behavior threatens others with violence and am disturbed when the law lets them off easily...

...I’VE FOUND A NEW SOULMATE...

...police six months after the commission of the crime-despite the fact that the driver’s license plate number had been taken down by witnesses and matched with a car by victim’s husband, who conducted his own search of the Department of Motor Vehicle’s records...

...But not if we can’t make sure that there are jobs for them and care for the children while they work...

...ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF bureaucracy that must be fought constantly is the tendency to focus inward-on matters such as turf battles, office size, parking spaces, and promotions-instead of on serving the public...