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...reform. The bane of the Capital Hill establishment. Two years ago, Feingold, along with senior Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), introduced a remarkable piece of legislation, meant to effectively abolish the corrupt and undemocratic system of campaign finance. The McCain-Feingold Bill would limit Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions and ban "soft money," the unlimited contributions to political parties which are then diverted to individual campaigns. For the last two years, however, McCain-Feingold has been ignored by the United States Congress, left to languish in some subcommittee...
...University of Miami basketball program reached the height of its popularity and success in the 1960s under the leadership of future NBA great and Hall-of-Famer Rick Barry. But soon after Barry's departure, sagging attendance and declining interest led the university to abolish the program...
...University of Miami basketball program reached the height of its popularity and success in the 1960s under the leadership of future NBA great and Hall-of-Famer Rick Barry. But soon after Barry's departure, sagging attendance and declining interest led the university to abolish the program...
...most famous episode from Harvard's history of student activism teaches a better lesson in the dangers of building takeovers. SDS occupied University Hall to press the Harvard Corporation to abolish the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) and to give in to five other related demands. Though the great majority of students at Harvard were against the war, most were also against SDS--and were aghast by the violence at University Hall, where deans were accosted and pushed from the building. The afternoon of the takeover, close to 1,000 students rallied outside the occupied building, many of them opposing...
Given the recent public controversy over the NEH and NEA-and even proposals to abolish the two grant agencies--Nixon calls the appropriation proposals "significant...