Word: apportionment
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U.S. colleges, on the other hand, are so responsive to cultural currents that they are often on the cutting edge of social change. Such sensitivity -- some might argue hypersensitivity -- to the culture around them reflects the broad array of constituencies to which college administrators must answer. The board of trustees...
You can sample Carlson's interview technique in this week's issue by reading her Q. and A. with veteran Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein. With her new duties, Carlson has to apportion her reporting time more carefully than ever -- even when keeping to her schedule means taking a bumpy flight...
The Columbus Day crack-up -- and the week of budget blustering that followed -- can serve as a lasting metaphor for national decline. Picture a government so broke and divided that patriotic tourists in Washington were caught between frustration (closed monuments) and farce (Congress in session). The public reaction was rage...
With so many lobbyists pulling strings, they may sometimes seem to cancel one another out. But at the very least, they have the power to obstruct, and their overall effect can be corrosive. At times the halls of power are so glutted with special pleaders that government itself seems to...
Nelson, who grew up on a small Texas cotton farm, knows how hard it is to get money to those who need it. In August he met with 50 farmers to discuss what to do with the proceeds. One plan is to apportion the money among the states, but there...