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...times have changed. In part it's simply a matter of the available labor pool. In these booming times, the Navy can't recruit enough men for its 315 ships. The other driving force has been the Navy's resolve to bleach the stain of the 1991 Tailhook Association convention, at which naval aviators sexually assaulted 83 women and then tried to cover it up. For years the Navy has been fighting the perception that women are not welcome in its ranks...
Teachers complain that constant standardized testing kills classroom creativity by forcing them to teach for the tests alone. And education wonks see other problems with the Bush plan. If Gore throws money at the problem without demanding accountability, Bush demands accountability without throwing enough money. As Gore argued last week, Bush's proposed tax cut is so expensive--between $1.3 trillion and $2.1 trillion over 10 years, depending on whose analysis you believe--that it would exceed the projected surplus, leaving nothing for anything else. Blithely ignoring that problem, Bush proposes a five-year, $5.5 billion spending increase for education...
What Bush may have taken from his father is that too much gentlemanliness can lose you an election. But his tough-guy stance in last week's interview went too far, suggesting that he might not be mature enough to be President and, worse yet, not mature enough to hide it. If a transcript can swagger, this one did. Graceless under no pressure, Bush made a big point of his refusal to follow polls. Fine, but why the hostility? "May I make something really clear to you once again, and I hope this pleases you. I don't care what...
...Washington seemed to be descending into an uglier version of its usual gun-control warfare. Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A's executive vice president, tore into Clinton by charging that he is "willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda." If that weren't inflammatory enough, LaPierre drove home his point in a separate interview by accusing the President of having "blood on his hands" for the death of a former Northwestern University basketball coach whose murderer slipped through existing gun-control laws. In the background of this bitter debate played a barrage of television...
...Gore couldn't wait to tie George W. Bush to the N.R.A's intemperate remarks, but oddly enough, LaPierre may have done Bush a favor with his nasty thrusts toward the President: the presumptive Republican nominee suddenly had a chance to look moderate. "There are ways to debate the issue without casting aspersions on the President like that," Bush said. "I just think they've gone too far." The high-profile break echoed his father's termination of his N.R.A membership over a fund-raising letter that labeled gun-enforcement officials "jack-booted thugs." The Governor will probably deflect Gore...