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Over crab cakes in the Vice President's elegant red-draped dining room, the network chiefs were urged, despite Murdoch's move, to continue their efforts to agree on a common ratings system. They settled on the framework for the agreement unveiled last week. But some delicate managing by Valenti and Gore was still required. "It was a question of holding everyone together," says a senior Administration official. "We were constantly on the phone with people, cajoling and reassuring...
...GALATIS, THE ENDGAME SHOULD HAVE been sweet. On Dec. 20, a Millstone technical manager fired off a frank piece of E-mail warning his colleagues that "the acceptance criteria are changing. Being outside the proper regulatory framework, even if technically justifiable, will be met with resistance by the NRC. Expect no regulatory relief." DeBarba put 100 engineers on a global evaluation of the plant, and they turned up more than 5,000 "items" to be addressed before the plant could go back online. The company announced a reorganization of its nuclear division in which DeBarba and Miller were both promoted...
...changes are] only the first step towards the endorsement of a broad framework" of new plans for PBHA, Ehrlich said. He said he sees the restructuring as a "continuing process...
Since the early days of the Republic, America has been a seafaring nation. The powerful rigging of our Constitutional ideals have always been held aloft by the mast and spars of a concerned, active citizenry. This has been exemplified by the stout framework of a calling to public service, a concern for the public good and a charitable spirit of volunteerism. But no matter how seaworthy the craft, how adept the captain, or how steady the wind, without this structural integrity, even a great ship of state will eventually become paralyzed. Because today's concerned students are indeed stakeholders...
Adopting the dual role of theorist-volunteer means that we are radically dependent on learning from our "clients" if we hope to serve them in any meaningful sense. To paraphrase Paulo Freire, we have to encourage a pedagogy by the oppressed as we connect volunteerism to a larger framework of social understanding. This is the essential role of a "service learning" program in the academy, and makes it more than worthy of a place within the canon of our "core" requirements...