National Journal articles from June 2001

National Journal archives from June 2001

Getting Testy.(danger of over-testing in schools)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2001... Across the country, newspapers report that parents are worried about their children being over-tested, and teachers are concerned about the loss of their ability to teach anything but what is on a test. And we're told students are more and more...

DRESS AS YOU PLEASE. JUST DON'T VOTE.(women in Kuwait)
June 2, 2001... By Friday, May 25, about 48 hours into the tale of the turncoat Senator, I was so mortally sick of all things Jeffords that I decided to wander through the National Gallery of Art with a pair of suffragists from Kuwait. It was bit of an...

CASEY MARTIN: NICE GUY WINS, DUMB LAWSUITS TO FOLLOW.
June 2, 2001... Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, some current professional golfers, the PGA, and Washington Post sportswriter Sally Jenkins say that walking a golf course, and thus conquering fatigue, is an essential part of PGA Tour competition. Disabled golfer...

CHEER UP, DRUG WARRIORS: VICTORY IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER.
June 2, 2001... "I want to escalate the war on drugs. I want to renew it. I want to refresh it, relaunch it, if you will." --Attorney General John D. Ashcroft February 7, 2001 WASHINGTON, June 2, 2003--Celebrating the first anniversary of the...

The K Street Scramble.(lobbyists gear up for Democratic-controlled Senate)
June 2, 2001... Chris Jennings is still tripping over boxes at his two-week-old lobbying shop and hasn't gotten around to hiring any help, but business couldn't be better. The phone has been ringing off the hook with inquiries about his availability ever since...

Why Sudan Matters.(American policy towards Sudanese civil war)
June 2, 2001... PRESIDENT BUSH IS ABOUT TO LAUNCH A POLICY ASSAULT ON ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST HORRIBLE CONFLICTS, THE CIVIL WAR IN SUDAN. HERE'S WHY. George W. Bush didn't exactly win the White House because voters were taken with his foreign policy...

Never Forget Tolerance.(dealing with hate movements)
June 2, 2001... IN THE FACE OF RISING HATE CRIMES, GERMANS HAVE A NEW DETERMINATION TO FIGHT RACISM. AND THEY'RE GETTING HELP FROM AN UNUSUAL SOURCE: AMERICAN JEWS. On the night of November 24, 1990, Amadeu Antonio, an Angolan living in the eastern German...

A HOMECOMING FOR A GERMAN JEW.(Robert B. Goldmann)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2001... NEW YORK CITY--When Robert B. Goldmann returned to his hometown of Reinheim, Germany, for the first time since his family fled in the 1930s, he sat almost paralyzed in his car. He thought he was at home. His wife, Eva, had to remind him later...

WHAT NEXT?(Republican activity in a Democratic-controlled Senate)
June 2, 2001... Better buckle up. After a rollercoaster week in which members of Congress saw their world turn upside down with the announcement of a switch in Senate control and then passed the biggest tax cut in 20 years during a rare Saturday session, the...

EDUCATION'S FINAL ACT.(education bill)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2001... After a succession of bipartisan deals in the House and Senate, much of President Bush's education agenda will be in play when House and Senate conferees come together to hammer out a compromise bill in June. And it looks as if the outcome will...

ON TAX CUTS, WE'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2001... At the end of an intense and overwhelming congressional battle, it might be tempting to assume that there is closure. One side wins, or (more often) all sides compromise. Issues get settled. Washington moves on. Many Democrats, and even some...

CONGRESSMEN WITHOUT COMMITTEES.(James A. Traficant Jr., Raymond Lederer and James Morrison)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2001... Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Ohio, has always been an unusual figure in Congress, given his wild floor speeches, his fadeddenim suits, and his weedwhacker haircut. But he made history earlier this year by becoming only the second House member...

MEMOS TO THE NEXT TRANSITION TEAM.(presidential transition)
June 2, 2001... Long before the outcome of the 2000 presidential election was known, several prominent academic institutions and Washington think tanks, many of them fortified with grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts, undertook an analysis of the...

`SOMEBODY WASN'T WATCHING THE STORE'.(John D. Negroponte's appointment as ambassador to United Nations delayed)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2001... On March 6, President Bush announced his intention to nominate veteran diplomat John D. Negroponte as ambassador to the United Nations. More than two months later, his paperwork has finally made it to the Senate, where it is under review....

A TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW AT FEMA.(James Lee Witt and Joe Allbaugh of the)(Federal Emergency Management Agency)
June 2, 2001... If any Administration figure achieved enduring hero status in Washington during the Clinton years, it was James Lee Witt. In his eight years as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Witt helped transform the once-moribund agency...

GET ALONG, LITTLE EURO-DOGIES.(controlling bovine spongiform encephalopathy)
June 2, 2001... "Mad-cow disease" is a phrase that often evokes wisecracks. Europe has had to shoulder huge financial losses from the disease's devastating effects, but the image of a frenzied cow shaking and mooing uncontrollably still elicits chuckles, even...

GEORGE W., MEET CHAIRMAN LEVIN.(George W. Bush and Carl Levin over military policy and defense spending)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2001... The last time a Republican President tried to change the American military in a big way, a rambunctious Senator attacked the plan as "a shambles." Twenty years later, it is deja vu all over again, except that the new commander in chief, George...

War and Our World.(Review)
June 2, 2001... From a man who has made his life's work the study of war, comes this small book of abundant insight, and buoyant hope for a future if not free of war, then at least inclined to be more peaceable. John Keegan was for years a military...

IT'S A DEEP, DEEP FURROW.(American and European Union agricultural policies addressed by House Agriculture Committee farm bill)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2001... The House Agriculture Committee hopes to have a draft of a new farm bill completed before the August congressional recess. Three months later, the World Trade Organization plans to launch a new round of talks that will focus on easing farm...

Hotline Extra.
June 2, 2001... Mind Your Posturing Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., is "denying" a report that "asserts he is `building a staff of campaign advisers' in connection with" a possible 2004 White House bid. Feingold said that the bid. Feingold said that the...

CAPITOL HILL CHAOS IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE.(Senate Republican defection)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2001... The aftershocks of Sen. James Jeffords's party switch continue to be felt on Capitol Hill. Democrats, now in control of the Senate, feel reasonably sure that Democratic Sens. Zell Miller of Georgia and Ben Nelson of Nebraska will stay in the...

Poll Track.(Brief Article)(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
June 2, 2001... Views on policy and politics * The Administration CUT OUT? Most Americans said they approved of the $1.35 trillion tax-cut bill that President Bush signed this week, even though almost half do not think they will benefit from it...

People.(appointments)
June 2, 2001... Hill People Bryce Dustman, who left a 13-year career as a Missouri farmer to make his mark in government, has attained a major goal: a position as a Capitol Hill chief of staff. Dustman, 44, most recently the communications director and...

DID BIG TENTS' COLLAPSE KILL DEALS?(effectiveness of divided government)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2001... Divided government is the new reality, but does it portend deals or deadlock? Divided government used to mean deals. More recently, it's meant deadlock. Every Republican President in the past 50 years has had to contend with having at...

THE TWISTED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOHN MCCAIN AND THE PRESS.
June 9, 2001... John McCain is a one-man reflection of that which I most despise about the culture of Washington, and most dread about the potential of that culture to inflict itself upon our national life. That's not to say anything bad about the Senator....

FINDING RACIAL BIAS WHERE THERE WAS NONE.
June 9, 2001... It started right after the election. The indispensable Jesse Jackson muttered about "a pattern of irregularities and intimidation" in Florida in which "African-American voters were substantially targeted." By December 8, he was claiming that...

HOW TO TAKE A FLAWED TAX BILL AND TURN IT INTO A JOKE.
June 9, 2001... The debate over the Bush tax cut, if you want to dignify it by calling it a debate, was depressing from the start. The intelligent middle ground--where you might have expected to find a few people who believe that lower taxes, other things...

The 49 Percent Nation.(election statistics)(Statistical Data Included)
June 9, 2001... IN THREE STRAIGHT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND THREE STRAIGHT HOUSE ELECTIONS, NEITHER PARTY HAS WON 50 PERCENT OF THE VOTE. WILL THE TREND CONTINUE? The United States at the end of the 20th century was a nation divided down the middle. In...

Special Delivery.(politics and the United States Postal Service)(Statistical Data Included)
June 9, 2001... IT CAN'T PLAY BY THE SAME LOBBYING RULES AS PRIVATE CORPORATIONS. SO THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE HAS SPEClAL WAYS OF GETTING ITS POINT ACROSS IN WASHINGTON. When John E. "Jack" Potter became Postmaster General on June 1, he took the reins of...

In the Hot Seat.(Representative Bob Ney and campaign finance reform)
June 9, 2001... It was mid-May, about a month after the Senate completed its high-stakes and exceptionally high-profile debate over campaign finance reform by approving the legislation championed by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Russell Feingold, D-Wis.,...

POWERFUL AMBITIONS.(Representative Joe Barton)
June 9, 2001... Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, had just concluded a speech at a Women in Government Relations Inc. luncheon two years ago when a lobbyist in the audience demanded that hejustify his position on water-conserving toilets. At the time, Barton and other...

PIVOTAL EVENTS IN CONGRESS.
June 9, 2001... JUNE 4-7 Daschle Low-Key as Senate Control Shifts In an unprecedented transfer of power in the middle of a congressional session, Sen. Thomas A. Daschle, D-S.D., assumed his new role as Majority Leader on June 6 with a brief,...

KEEPIN' IT TOGETHER IN THE SENATE.(Senator Thomas A. Daschle)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2001... The aftershocks from Sen. James M. Jeffords's stunning defection from the GOP that tipped the Senate's partisan balance have obscured a little-noticed fact: Since President Bush took office, the chamber's Republicans have toed their party line...

WOOING WIRED WORKERS.(politics and the high-technology industry)
June 9, 2001... Call them the wired workers, PalmPilot professionals, or Yahoo yuppies. They are, in general, socially liberal and economically conservative, according to recent surveys. They're also young, have few children, are not religious, and have spent...

HMO LOBBYISTS: STILL THE WINNING TOUCH?(health maintenance organizations)
June 9, 2001... Picture this: You represent an industry with a major public relations problem, and consumers and politicians are turning up the heat. They are pressing for a new law to make it easier to haul your companies into court. In the past six...

A `HEARTY' BOOZE BATTLE.(relationship between health aspects of alcohol and alchoholic beverage labeling)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2001... Will a drink a day keep the doctor away? A free-market public-interest group thinks so, and it is suing the federal government to let beer, wine, and liquor drinkers read all about it. The Competitive Enterprise Institute wants to see a new...

FROM THE K STREET CORRIDOR.(lobbying against electricity price caps)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2001... K Street Assignment: Kill Price Caps Concerned about louder calls in Congress (especially in the Senate) for temporary wholesale price caps, some of California's biggest electricity suppliers have been expanding their Washington lobbying...

NORTH KOREA SICKENS A GERMAN DOCTOR.
June 9, 2001... Dr. Norbert Vollertsen said it was the 1999 release of the movie Patch Adams that inspired him to scale down his private medical practice in Germany and organize protests against German health authorities to demand better patient care. The...

AN ARMY OF ONE FEELING: ANGST.
June 9, 2001... On Saturday, May 12, the Joint Chiefs of Staff met with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for a briefing on one of the most eagerly awaited of the many secretive ongoing reviews of U.S. defense policy. Dubbed the "Rumsfeld Reviews," these...

The Sixteen-Trillion-Dollar Mistake.(Review)
June 9, 2001... The Sixteen-Trillion-Dollar Mistake By Bruce S. Jansson Columbia University Press 492 pages $49.50 Since the 1960s, many American students' introduction to the dismal science of economics has included ranch on Washington's frequent "guns...

Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform.(Brief Article)
June 9, 2001... Lucky Princeton University Press. Its Unfree Speech hit the streets just a few days before the Senate took up and approved a campaign finance law that was the handiwork of John McCain, R-Ariz., and Russell Feingold, D-Wis. And the battle was...

RULES OF THE TWINS.(are George W. Bush's daughter's lives news worth covering)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2001... A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO COVERING JENNA AND BARBARA: 1. Begin Quietly. Anytime the Bush Twins are interrogated, arrested, the objects of a high-speed chase, etc., the first rule for news people is to remain calm. Stifle all outward signs of...

OFF TO SEE A GRUMPY EU.(George W. Bush's management foreign policies)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2001... George W. is packing for his first official trip to Europe. The President is scheduled to meet with leaders of the European Union on June 14 in Goteborg, Sweden. He can expect an earful from his European Union counterparts about his...

CHANGE PARTNERS AND DANCE?(George W. Bush and Thomas A. Daschle's relationship)
June 9, 2001... As presidential candidate George W. Bush was touting his skills in working with the opposition party, skeptics were warning that the Democrats on Capitol Hill would not be nearly as compliant as the Democrats who ran the Texas Legislature. ...

Hotline Extra.
June 9, 2001... Long Division Vanity Fair's Marjorie Williams reports that, as of mid-May, former President Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore "had not spoken since the day of Bush's inauguration." The split "presents itself as everything from a...

PARTIES FIGHT AIR WAR IN TIDEWATER VIRGINIA.(political parties compete for congressional seat)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2001... In less than two weeks, voters in Tidewater Virginia's 4th Congressional District will go to the polls to replace the late Democratic Rep. Norman Sisisky in the first all-out electoral fight between the two parties since George W. Bush became...

Poll Track.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 9, 2001... Views on policy and politics * White House 2004 BLAST FROM THE PAST Many months will pass before Americans give any serious thought to the 2004 presidential election--outside the Beltway, anyway. Asked recently about a list of...

People.
June 9, 2001... Consulting Game Former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart and former Gore aides Michael Feldman and Carter Eskew are setting up shop together. The Glover Park Group will draw on the political trio's talents and connections and will focus...

THE NEW SOCCER MOMS.(George W. Bush's plan to drill for more gasoline)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2001... HIGH INCOME OWNERS OF GAS-GULPING SUVs LOVE BUSH ENERGY PLAN. The President has just achieved the top item on his agenda--his big tax cut. But the President's job is to address the top problem on the American people's agenda. It's gasoline...

WITH BIDEN AT THE HELM, THE BALKANS DEBATE GETS LIVELIER.(Joseph Biden; Jesse Helms)
June 16, 2001... "It probably comes as no surprise to most people that the subject of my very first hearing as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee is the Balkans." Thus, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr.--after dropping the appropriate petals of humility on the...

BUSH vs. GORE AND THE PARTISANSHIP OF THE PROFESSORS.
June 16, 2001... The left-liberal reflex reaction to Bush vs. Gore will not be challenged widely in the academy, though the decision is no more vulnerable to criticism than many of the cases that liberals cherish.... Surrounded by the like-minded, browsing...

A NEW CENTER BECKONS, BUT CAN EITHER PARTY FIND IT?
June 16, 2001... To: President Bush Senate Majority Leader Daschle From: RauchCorp Political Consulting Inc. The great prize in American politics is long-term dominance of the center, which, as of now, is up for grabs. And what a prize! Whichever party...

Stuffing Their Purses.
June 16, 2001... AS THE FIRST WOMEN TO HEAD THE DEMOCRATS' CAMPAIGN COMMITTEES ON CAPITOL HILL, PATTY MURRAY AND NITA LOWEY EACH HAS SET OUT TO PROVE SHE CAN RAISE AS MUCH MONEY AS A MAN. If William "Boss" Tweed ever got wind that two ex-housewives have...

Sliding Downhill?
June 16, 2001... AMERICA'S AUTO INDUSTRY FACES AGGRESSIVE CHALLENGES GLOBALLY. UNLIKE TWO DECADES AGO, WHEN WASHINGTON WAS AWASH WITH PLANS FOR PROPPING UP THE INDUSTRY, DETROIT MAY BE ON ITS OWN. GRAVATAI, Brazil--As a completed power train--transmission,...

INTERNET SALES ARE NOT YET THE FUTURE.(Brief Article)
June 16, 2001... SAO PAULO, Brazil--It's the middle of the night in this country's largest city. You can't sleep. Your old clunker has died in a McDonald's parking lot, and you need a new set of wheels. Fear not. Power up the laptop and order a new General...

A DRAMATIC PARTING.(Brief Article)
June 16, 2001... Until 1987, the number of jobs in the American auto parts industry closely tracked those in the automobile assembly business. Since then, employment in the parts business has reached historic levels--a trend that accelerated after the big...

Bitter Medicine.
June 16, 2001... WITH HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS SKYROCKETING, BUSINESSES ARE STARTING TO CUT BACK ON EMPLOYEE BENEFITS. Two years ago, Cindi and Greg Underwood began offering health insurance to the 26 workers in their plumbing business. The labor market was...

PIVOTAL EVENTS IN CONGRESS.
June 16, 2001... JUNE 11-14 Senate Puts Final Marks on Education Bill The Senate appeared to be headed at press time on June 14 toward overwhelming approval of its education bill, which includes some, but not all, of President Bush's education agenda....

A PARTY HIT BY A POWER SURGE.(Brief Article)
June 16, 2001... The virtual unity among congressional Republicans on tax cuts and education--the cornerstones of President Bush's early agenda--has given way to a nuclear meltdown over energy policy. It's not surprising that Republicans have regional and...

SOCIAL SECURITY PANEL PUTS A TOE IN.
June 16, 2001... The first meeting of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security shed little extra light on where it is headed or how it hopes to accomplish the daunting task of proposing a complete overhaul of the retirement system--replete with...

IN THE GLOBAL-WARMING BOX.(Brief Article)
June 16, 2001... What is ironic about the global-warming debate, which raised blood pressure in Europe this week, is how President Bush s conservative and industry supporters have actually hobbled, rather than helped, the new Administration. In publicly...

AFTER 50 YEARS, AMA QUITS CHAMBER.(American Medical Association)(Brief Article)
June 16, 2001... The American Medical Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce--two heavyweights in Washington's lobbying community--have split up after a nearly 50-year relationship. Like many breakups, this one is partly about money and partly about...

SPEAK BLUNTLY AND CARRY A SOFT STICK.(Representative Roy Blunt)(Brief Article)
June 16, 2001... When House Majority Whip Tom DeLay tapped second-term Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., to be his chief deputy whip in 1999, many lobbyists were surprised because Blunt wasn't well-known on K Street. Since then, though, Blunt has assiduously courted...

BROADBAND BATTLE OVER SMALL-TOWN U.S.A.
June 16, 2001... Listening to the advertising cross fire in the debate over the controversial Tauzin-Dingell highspeed Internet access bill, you would think that the survival of rural America was hanging in the balance. Consider one widely televised...

FROM THE K STREET CORRIDOR.(Brief Article)
June 16, 2001... Now Albright Has a Shop, Too Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright has launched new international strategic advisory firm called (what else?) the Albright Group. Her partners at the fledgling firm include Clinton Administration...

NEW PRESIDENT, SAME OLD CUBA POLICY.
June 16, 2001... FOREIGN AFFAIRS Betrayal is the founding myth of the Cuban-American community. The Bay of Pigs is remembered by Cuban exiles not as the half-hearted effort of a divided U.S. government, but as a purposeful betrayal by President Kennedy....

Invisible Women: Junior Enlisted Army Wives.(Review)
June 16, 2001... Invisible Women: Junior Enlisted Army Wives By Margaret C. Harrell RAND 130 pages $15.00 A book detailing the travails of Army privates' wives--with an olive-drab cover, no less--might seem dry stuff best suited to Pentagon wonks and...

ON WRITERS: AN OFFICER'S KID ON UNFAMILIAR TERRAIN.
June 16, 2001... For her book, Margaret C. Harrell, an Army brat turned think-tank analyst, drew on interviews she conducted for her doctorate degree in anthropology at the University of Virginia. She spoke with National Journal about the book and her...

Poll Track.(criminal justice, tax policy, alcohol, AIDS)(Brief Article)
June 16, 2001... Views on policy and politics Crime and Justice THE MCVEIGH EXECUTION Most people have confidence in the criminal justice system, and they think it worked well in the case of executed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, according...

ELIZABETH DOLE STILL PERFECTLY DRIVEN.
June 16, 2001... On the day President Bush was trying, without success, to dissuade Sen. James M. Jeffords of Vermont from bolting the Republican Party, Elizabeth Hanford Dole was throwing a party in honor of her mother's 100th birthday in her hometown of...

A TALE OF FALTERING AMBITION.(Brief Article)
June 16, 2001... At least on one level, Christopher Cox, the Congressman from the conservative Republican enclave of California known as Orange County, has led a charmed life. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Southern California in three...

Hotline Extra.
June 16, 2001... Will He or Won't He? Gore in four? Well, that depends on whom you ask. U.S. News & World Report's Paul Bedard reports that with each day, as former Vice President Al Gore "visits restaurants instead of political forums, there's a growing...

WILL DEPOSED CHAIRMEN CALL IT A DAY?(Brief Article)
June 16, 2001... Perhaps the most important long-term effect of Sen. James M. Jeffords's defection from the GOP will be on the 2002 Senate contests. Having lost their gavels, will any Republicans who were committee chairmen decide not to seek re-election? How...

People.
June 16, 2001... At the White House Regina K. Vargo, 51, former deputy assistant secretary for the Western Hemisphere at the Commerce Department, has been named assistant U.S. Trade Representative for the Americas. President Bush is eager to establish a...

THE DANGER OF GOING TOO FAR.(Brief Article)
June 16, 2001... You might call last week's British election a reluctant landslide. Tony Blair's Labor government repeated its stunning victory of four years ago by winning 413 of 659 seats in Parliament. This total is down only slightly from 1997, when Labor...

Correction.
June 30, 2001... A profile of White House speechwriter Michael J. Gerson (6/23/01, p. 1885) misidentified the location of the college he attended. Gerson studied at Wheaton College in Illinois.

Letters.
June 30, 2001... THUMBS DOWN FOR A BOOK REVIEW In "Combative, Facile, and Boggling" [On Books, 6/9/01, p. 1751], Eliza Newlin Carney's review asserts that Unfree Speech "fail[s] to make a credible [letter writer's emphasis] case for deregulating the...

JOYCE CHIANG, CHANDRA LEVY, AND AWFUL, GNAWING UNCERTAINTIES.
June 30, 2001... "I remember seeing her bundled up. She was headed off to work. She said, `I'll see you later.' That was the very last image I have of my sister." Roger Chiang was remembering the missing-person case that gripped Washington before the...

WHAT A CURE! HIGHER MEDICAL COSTS AND MORE UNINSURED.
June 30, 2001... If you want an inkling of what the McCain-Kennedy-Edwards "patients' bill of rights" would do, consider the cases of some plaintiffs who have already found ways around the federal law shield--which the bill would dismantle--that now protects...

COUNTING UP THE BILL FOR THE PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS.
June 30, 2001... In a syndicated column last week, Michael Kinsley attacked the proposed patients' bill of rights. He sort of attacked it, anyway. He mocked it as an example of "liberalism a la mode, which is one way of characterizing the dominant politics of...

The Secrets of Recruiting.
June 30, 2001... ELBOWING UNWANTED CANDIDATES OUT OF A PRIMARY GOES HAND-IN-HAND WITH ENTICING RELUCTANT, WANTED CONTENDERS. Sometimes when a political party searches for just the right candidate to run for Congress, it's mutual love at first sight....

Hello, World.(media coverage of foreign events)
June 30, 2001... TRUE, THE END OF THE COLD WAR ENDED MANY AMERICANS' INTEREST IN OVERSEAS EVENTS. BUT ALL THOSE REPORTS ABOUT THE DEATH OF FOREIGN NEWS COVERAGE MAY HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED. Is foreign news slowly vanishing from the American media...

An Easy Out.(Congress planning a fiscal policy)
June 30, 2001... SOME LAWMAKERS HAVE A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO APPROPRIATIONS STALEMATES: SPEND WHATEVER'S LEFT OF THE SURPLUS. On Capitol Hill, passing the 13 annual appropriations bills is never easy. Even earlier this year, when the Republicans' control of...

NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION ANNOUNCES America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places 2001.
June 30, 2001... The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a private, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to protecting the irreplaceable. With more than a quarter-million members nationwide, it provides leadership, education, and advocacy to save...