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...West's lesser known political leaders, he is one of its most effective. Now 59, he entered politics in 1944 as a political apprentice to the late Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi, the most respected of Italian leaders. Observes an admirer: "He was De Gasperi's tape recorder. He remembered everything and erased nothing." Andreotti has vast experience in government; he has held virtually every portfolio, including three previous turns as Prime Minister...
Educational Theorist John Holt, author of Why Children Fail, used to tour the lecture circuit trying to persuade elementary and secondary schools to ease rigid rules and cut red tape. No longer. Despairing of reform within the nation's educational establishment, Holt has now decided to proselytize among parents, urging them to keep their children out of school and teach them at home...
...helping to set up the Marshall Plan. When Bruce was named U.S. Ambassador to France, Tish became social secretary to him and his wife Evangeline. In 1951 she worked briefly for the CIA on "a lot of secret stuff." Then, having learned Italian from a contessa and a tape recorder, she landed a job as social secretary to the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Clare Boothe Luce, who became a close friend and is now godmother to Tish's 13-year-old daughter Clare...
...OSHA are concerned, even the most ardent deregulators want some rules to remain, admitting that it is impossible to put a dollar price on social welfare. But at the same time they argue that there are now too many silly, contradictory and ineffective rules that snarl enterprise in red tape. Above all, they see a need to identify and enact sensible changes that would allow regulation to achieve much the same social goals in a less wasteful way and with a much smaller damage to other, equally important economic goals, including job-creation...
...price. As a result, they have made little attempt to apply the most elementary cost-benefit analyses. Cheaper solutions that could achieve the same ends or almost the same ends have been ignored in favor of overkill. America has just not got value for money from its red-tape spending spree...