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...seize. House Republicans have axed the $750 million budget for Clinton's program to improve skills via the public schools--the Goals 2,000 package, strongly backed by a group of CEOs known as the Business Roundtable. Buchanan has promised to do the same, and for that matter to ax the whole Education Department...
...G.O.P. TAX AX...
...slashes into one of the most productive economic inputs--human capital. Despite an entire book written on the subject by Nobel laureate Gary Becker and dozens of other economists' faith in education as an instrument of growth, the Republicans have not exempted student aid programs from the budget ax...
Seles has grown in other ways. Her musical tastes went from Madonna to Hendrix. During her time off, she studied French and learned to shoot pool and play the guitar, even buying a Fender Stratocaster. She may have had another ax to grind. Seles is still annoyed at the way she was treated by her sisters on the tour. "They were supportive of me the day I was stabbed," she told the New York Times, "but by the next Monday in Rome they were already standing up to take my ranking away. Gabby [Gab riela] Sabatini was the only person...
Rice was once described in a newspaper article as having a "personality and fresh approach [that] helped change the image of the social worker from battle-ax to friend and helper...