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John Heilemann "Uncle Sam doesn't want you; government agencies are a haven for the mediocre because they don't try to get anybody better - Cover Story". Washington Monthly. FindArticles.com. 05 Jan, 2010. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n11_v22/ai_9218074/
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The Defense Revolution: Strategy for the Brave New World. - book reviews
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Dishonest Abe; how LBJ's favorite Supreme Court justice became the prototype of Washington's valueless lawyers - Abe Fortas, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Uncle Sam doesn't want you; government agencies are a haven for the mediocre because they don't try to get anybody better - Cover Story
by John Heilemann -
Mental health spas; how money intended for homeless psychotics went to suburban neurotics
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Small places: In Search of a Vanishing America. - book reviews
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How they missed that story; the first casualty of Desert Shield was a skeptical press - Operation Desert Shield
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What the beltway could learn from the Bible belt; campaigns aren't horse races, they're moral arguments - critical review of Garry Wills's 'Under God: Religion and American Politics'
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Banking on secrecy; with our banks about to go the way of our S&Ls, it's time we made the Freedom of Information Act cover financial institutions too
by Teresa Simons -
The natives are arrestless; the Justice Department has jurisdiction over Indian reservations, but is letting people get away with murder
by Nicholas Hentoff
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