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Article: Shut up, they explained. (adoption of zero-tolerance policies)
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- Reason
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- June 1, 1997
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The speech police discover "zero tolerance."
"I know one thing," said Maureen Dowd when she joined the Washington bureau of The New York Times. "I'm not going to be covering any of those dreary regulatory agencies." Too bad. We already have more than we need of political coverage that chronicles the doings of high officialdom while glossing over the details of how government actually works its day-to-day will on the citizenry. It's as if pundits were forever recording every change in restaurants' ownership and management without ever sampling the food.
The very dreary Equal Employment Opportunity Commission typifies the sort of agency that would come under ...