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The terms: Give the President his $253 billion plan to add prescription drug benefits to Medicare, and he'll sign the Republicans' "marriage penalty" tax abolition, which would cost about $250 billion over the same 10-year period. Certainly there is extra money floating about these days - the new $1.9...
Still, many students retained their radical views. A Crimson editorial in 1975 called for the abolition of the CIA, and Segall says the Independent, founded as a conservative response to the Crimson in the late 1960s, was dominated by liberal executives by 1975.
More than ten years after the Cold War, the U.S. needs to reevaluate what it has accomplished with the "gift of time" that nuclear activist Jonathan Schell '65 eloquently wrote about in 1998. Writing soon after news of the Clinton administration's nuclear war fighting plans trickled to the press...
However, Allyn is at times intellectually dangerous, especially if one reads the book without an understanding of American history and a decent command of the history of western civilization. Allyn also tells us that St. Augustine's sexual repression is the cause of the Catholic Church's current birth control...
If the idea of a long novel about horses and horse racing has all the appeal of an afternoon at a seedy OTB outpost, read on. For Jane Smiley's Horse Heaven (Knopf; 561 pages; $26) turns out to go down quite easily--more like a pitcher of mint juleps...