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Under the deal Justice accepted, officials contend, mobsters are indeed being cleaned out--not only in Buffalo but also in the New York City area and soon in Chicago--and Coia has agreed to a rank-and-file vote in September. "It's a stunning achievement in this short period of time," says Coffey. "It took years to accomplish this in the Teamsters." Moreover, Coia himself is very much a target of the investigation his union bankrolls. Says Gow: "I've spent more man-hours on him than on any other entity." Time has also learned that a grand jury...
...News fails to rank a crucial category, and one that Harvard would also dominate: quality of local ice cream parlors...
Brennan succeeded by refining ideas. Those are the real coin of influence. The ones that rank as influential tend to be simple to grasp, endless in their implications, challenging to accomplish but still within the realm of possibility (for instance: Love thy neighbor). Perhaps one of the most influential men in American politics is the late Leo Strauss, the German emigre political philosopher who taught at the University of Chicago in the 1950s and '60s. His distrust of moral relativism, his deep skepticism about the benefits of the Enlightenment and his concern that the unchecked authority of reason would sabotage...
...long as we give our love and respond more to "an officer and a gentleman" instead of to "a private and a pacifist," men will tend to confuse love and respect with rank and, having defined themselves that way, will feel that the loss of rank is the loss of self--hence suicide. What can we do? If we use Admiral Boorda's suicide to deepen our understanding, then his death will save more lives via prevented suicides than he would have saved in commanding men effectively during wartime. WARREN FARRELL Encinitas, California...
...from the National Center for Education Statistics indicates that they are actually among the best in the world. Citing a 32-country study of fourth and ninth graders conducted by an international coalition of government agencies and research institutions in 1992, the NCES found that U.S. students' literacy skills rank second only to those of Finnish school children. Why the switch? Prior studies failed to account for the more demanding curriculum in U.S. schools. "The report shows how high standards are for American kids," says TIME's Ann Blackman. "Our teachers require the kids to jump through more hoops than...