Unique responsibilities, training, and skills equip business officers to help school systems build a culture of competence.

Tension between the United States and Iran reached levels not seen in more than 20 years when, on Wednesday, Iranian military officials threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, the 34-mile wide channel through which more than one-third of the world’s oil tanker traffic passes. 

No environmental problem is more important than that posed by the degradation of our cities, and we must reflect on the factors that might prevent or reverse the decay that we are witnessing. In urban planning, civic leaders should think in terms of fostering beauty through the use of aesthetic constraints.

If we are left with English departments that do not need Shakespeare, then who needs English departments?

In clandestine intelligence collection and covert action, bigger is rarely better.

Gore supporters will dump on Bill Clinton for being Bill Clinton, Hillary for arrogance, the centrist Democratic Leadership Council for trying to pull the party righter than it wanted to go, and Ralph Nader for stealing liberal votes and for pulling the Gore campaign left.

Nothing transcendent will ever come from Iraq, however, unless Washington takes the mundane preliminary step of destroying the current Iraqi officer corps.

Testimony by James R. Lilley before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 12, 2003.