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Looking at the numbers, it's clear that the quarter-trillion-dollar tax cut has added an undue burden to an already arduous process. A proposed cut of $10 billion in student aid, only one twenty-fifth of the size of the middle class tax cut, appears to be only a drop in the bucket. But for thousands of students, that money is no such thing...
Ending weeks of arduous renegotiation, the Senate gave final approval to a $16.3 billion package of spending cuts from the current budget, which President Clinton had vetoed last month. The measure restores funds to key Clinton-backed social programs, and the President will now sign...
Rudenstine said that the current issue takingup most of his time is the appointment of thisyear's tenured professors from school's across theUniversity, all of which he has the final say on.In the last three weeks, Rudenstine said he hasgone through about a dozen arduous meetings withan ad hoc committee to consider each candidatethat has been recommended for tenure
...Robert Louis Stevenson (Random House; 567 pages; $30) describes a hardworking idler, a Scottish Calvinist who remade himself as a romantic and (four days out of any seven) a convincing bohemian, a smothered son who remained boyish all his short life, and an invalid who lived a life of arduous travel and physical adventure. (Another frail, literary, boyish adventurer of the time comes to mind, and though R.L.S. and Theodore Roosevelt seem never to have met, they probably would have enjoyed each other's company...
...other important business? Sure, the Streisand lecture must have absorbed much of his attention, not to mention the O.J. Simpson trial. (Court-TV is, of course, universal.) Really, is it such a demanding time commitment to drop a few flurries? Condensation we know just isn't that arduous...