When All Else Fails
Despite their popular and hard-earned reputation for avoiding doing anything that could be misconstrued as sensible, politicians are not always allergic to doing what should be done. Unless they really can’t help it, at any rate. Case in point: DC Major Adrien Fenty (above, chucking beads to people at a gay pride parade, for some reason that eludes this Brit). Facing a budgetary chasm of $340 million over the next two fiscal years, Fenty has taken the heretical steps of cutting jobs and