Word: reforms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...because voters almost surgically bisected Congress, moderates on both sides believe they will have crucial leverage to pass bills on issues such as health care, trade and possibly even campaign-finance reform. "The center is much stronger," enthuses Senator John Breaux, Democrat of Louisiana. "I love operating in a 50-50 vacuum!" He's excited because it takes 60 votes in his chamber to end debate on a bill; either side will have to woo the 10-plus extra votes from the opposition's moderate ranks. The House isn't quite so close, but the theory still applies: with...
Both G.O.P. and Democratic state legislators say that Harris, as secretary of state, has shown little interest in electoral-reform bills--despite taking office after one of the state's worst cases of voter fraud, one that saw a Miami mayoral race overturned in court. Her post requires especially detailed contact with local apparatchiks. But county election supervisors, the people who could have saved Florida from a week of embarrassment, grouse that she rarely attends their state meetings...
...better? It might be easier to reform the system if there were a system, but the Constitution left election procedures to the states. They in turn have mostly passed the responsibility down to the counties and cities, some 3,000 of them, which choose their preferred methods and pay for them. It's the paying part that is often the stumbling block. "If your choice is between new voting machines and a road grader," says Arkansas secretary of state Sharon Priest, "it's no contest...
...faculty committees spearheading the reform made a proposal in the form of the 2000 Strategic Plan aimed at across-the-board changes from smaller classes and more debt relief to a more flexible grading curve...
Some students are frustrated by what they perceive as the faculty's inaction. "I think HLS falls short in all of the categories identified in the McKinsey study, but I was particularly amazed at the faculty's rejection of grading reform. Why did they do that study, again?" Hermes says...