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Thus, a council member who was absent from sixmeetings last semester, can miss another fivebefore being expelled again, although even thatexpulsion may not be permanent...
...trillion budget to Congress that forecasts a deficit of $176 billion. Severely restricted by congressionally mandated limits, the budget increases just 2.3%, and only 36% of the total is discretionary spending. That brings government spending, as a percentage of the national economy, to its lowest level since 1979. Prominently absent: the cost of Clinton's health-care plan...
Before the rock band Counting Crows had even finished its first album, it was invited to replace an absent Van Morrison and perform at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame dinner before a crowd that included Eric Clapton and Bruce Springsteen. The buzz was on. This was a band marked for big things -- and under a lot of pressure to make a solid album...
Alcohol made Pete Hamill's father just as absent as Art Buchwald's mother was. The father, Billy Hamill, who came from northern Ireland, had only one leg: he lost the other after it was brutally broken in a soccer game. When Billy came home from the saloons at night to the family's Brooklyn apartment, he would remove his artificial leg along with his trousers. Pete remembers them hanging over a chair in the bedroom and the smell of vomit. He had his first fight when a boy named Brother Foppiano taunted in a singsong, "Your...
...Thursday marks the first anniversary of the Waleses' official separation -- a year that has taken its toll on the entire family. Diana threw herself into her many charities, but she kept some distance from Buckingham Palace. It was hard to know who was dissing whom. The Princess was conspicuously absent from Trooping the Color in June and the Queen Mum's birthday in August...