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Trees, jobs, and profits--these were fighting words across the country last week as industry, environmental and political groups fought over the future of huge tracts of forest land that lie before the logger's axe. Fights are inevitable when the economic interests of the present collide with the desire to preserve ecosystems for the future. But one of the surprising lessons of the bruising battles over the environment in the past few years is that green sentiment is again a powerful political force. That's why Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski failed to ram through legislation that would have facilitated...
...line of close and extended analysis of texts of all ages and, at the same time, of cinematic and visual forms. If there is an "eternal return" of the same, or if the spectre of the experience of one place begins to mark that of another, the "H", the axe of Harvard, is not far from the horseshoe...
Funding for higher education this year escaped the Congressional Republicans' budget-cutting axe...
...advantages of switching are numerous. To begin with, we'd have a reasonably-sized winter break, long enough to relax or even acquire gainful employment. And we wouldn't have to return to face the whistling axe of final exams. Reading periods would be shorter, but since these are nothing more than ill-disguised extensions of the semester, good riddance. And our spring break might actually have a chance of coinciding with those of our friends at other colleges...
Federal funding for higher education will largely be spared from the Congressional budget-cutting axe in the latest incarnation of the 1996 budget, according to compromises likely to pass both the House and the Senate...