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...Federal Government spend more money. It was a stirring spectacle, but not for Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, chairman of the Budget Committee, who opposed each measure with the wry frustration of a man attempting to juggle Jell-O. Norm Coleman, Republican of Minnesota, wanted to restore block grants for cities. "I could tell you story after story," he said about the glorious effects of federal dough. "If we start funding all the stories," Gregg responded, "we're going to run out of money." Ted Kennedy then rose, bristling with charts and graphs, to beg restoration of $5.4 billion...
...into constitutional problems. The second is inconsistent and vague rulings are going to run into constitutional problems." Another strategy for networks is to argue that the existence of the V chip--a device, mandated on all television sets 13 in. or larger manufactured since 2000, that allows parents to block content considered suspect--demonstrates that there are less intrusive means of controlling content. The PTC counters that the V chip is not ubiquitous or widely used enough and that the voluntary ratings system it draws on is faulty...
...most inexpensive things can be well designed," he says. "Instead of paying too much money for something not exciting, you should buy two or three things for fun from H&M and, if you have the money, a Chanel jacket." H&M stores reported lines around the block when Lagerfeld's collection arrived...
...their partners are attempting to turn a decrepit space on the lower level of a Mass. Ave building—former home to Second Coming, an all-purpose music store that closed this summer—into the epicenter of the New England Hip Hop scene, just a block east of Harvard Square...
...There’s something almost spiritual about creating something out of nothing, about shaping the raw block of wood into a work of art,” says Sean D. Wilson...