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Chester Finn, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, who formerly worked in Ronald Reagan's Department of Education, and who is sympathetic to many of Clinton's goals, insists, "The states are the constitutional authorities in education."
A cell phone user simultaneously withdraws from public life to discuss his taxes or what's wrong with the cat or whatever, and insists that the public intrude into his private life.
I've been remarried for six years to my present husband, and he insists that my daughter should refer to him as either "Dad" or "Mr.
He insists that we talk about a "techno-economic system ," a "political order ," a "cultural sphere ," with an "axial principle" running through them all--the "codificacation of theoretical knowledge."
The WP effort features a sampling of policies of various people in public life designed to avoid baseless rumors of sexual misconduct: The Rev. Billy Graham has refused to be alone in a room with any women besides his wife since the 1940s; Rep. Steve Largent insists on having a male staff member present whenever he meets with a woman; and John Ensign, running for the Senate in Nevada, will not be alone in a car with a woman.