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...Thomas' interest in the subject stems from personal experience. "It's a city I've known for many years. I lived there as a student," he says. What intrigued him was the way a city could be like a person undergoing a character shift...
...significant innovation brought by the Core in 1979 was the shift of focus from a general education founded in a common body of knowledge to a more liberating focus on "approaches to knowledge" and understanding the perspectives of different disciplines...
...which he accepted political responsibility for the excesses committed by the armed forces during his 17-year reign. And yet in his answers to Judge Guzman, Pinochet was not exactly heroic. In fact, it looks an awful lot like the man who'd headed the junta was trying to shift responsibility back down the chain of command, to the officers in charge of those garrisons visited by the "Caravan of Death." And, of course, the military is having none of it. They've always relied on the Nuremberg defense - "just following orders." Pinochet had for years maintained that his regime...
...enforcement efforts won't be anywhere near as brutal as those that came to light during the 1997 to '98 congressional hearings, which shamed the IRS into a full-scale reorganization. A kinder, gentler agency is now focused on service to taxpayers more than on enforcement. The shift has been so total, in fact, that the consensus within the agency and among tax professionals is that the IRS has got too lax--and tax cheats have got bolder...
...delay at all provides Ashcroft's adversaries with time to build up their arsenal, which, while probably incapable of bringing down Ashcroft's nomination, could serve another, longer-term purpose: By lodging deeply in vulnerable congressional Republicans, the Dems' ammunition may poison GOP reelection efforts - and even shift the balance of power on Capitol Hill...