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...following among conservatives. He was the man who would stop at almost nothing to win, and almost always did. In 1974, he wrote a small pamphlet--Rumsfeld's Rules--about how to make things happen in Washington. He has updated it regularly ever since. Rule No. 25: "Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems...
...again," says the state chairman of a crucial Democratic donor state. "Donors tell me they dread the call from his people, and I tell them to be candid. This is a message he's going to hear from a number of people." Top Democratic strategists and fund raisers blame Gore's loss not on the Florida recount or the Supreme Court but on Gore himself--his lame performance, inept campaign and stubborn mishandling of Bill Clinton. Indeed, party leaders on both coasts say Gore must patch his rocky relations with Clinton. But those close to Gore still defend his distance...
...founder of the Rape Emergency Intervention Counseling Center in Okinawa and an Okinawan assemblywoman. Makiko Tanaka, Japan's female Foreign Minister, is reported to have said to colleagues there must have been "something wrong with the girl, going out so late at night." Old-fashioned attitudes impose shame and blame on the victim. Studies say this limits the number of rapes reported to the police to between 1% and 10% of the actual incidents...
Kress will at least be able to claim victory when he leaves. But he'll be cursed for his success by Republicans on the Hill, many of whom blame him for compromising almost all of the conservative elements of Bush's education plan, such as school vouchers. Republican lawmakers are so suspicious of Kress that many won't deal with him directly. When House and Senate negotiators met recently to discuss the President's bill, several Democratic Senators acknowledged Kress with approval. Hillary Clinton even gave him a kiss. Republicans just glared. They can start smiling soon...
Then again, if a parent lives in, say, California, where 30 kids pack the average third-grade classroom, who can blame her for home schooling? If it's a choice between being good to one's family or good to one's community, it's not much of a choice at all. Many, of course, try to be both, but some parents say the schools are too far gone. Amy Langley, who home schools her son and daughter in Decatur, Ga., believes two-income families don't participate enough to make public schools work. "And too much class time...