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...hate to be blunt) they weren't the brightest bunch I've ever met. No way should so many of them have been awarded magna degrees, much less summa honors...
...initiative doesn't really help the poorest Americans toward higher education. "It's a middle-class tax break. That's something different than speaking about loans or scholarships," says David Markowitz of the American Council on Education, which represents 1,600 of the nation's colleges and universities. To blunt that criticism, the Administration last week shifted several billion dollars from HOPE scholarships to low-income Pell Grants, expanding the Pell program by 25 percent...
...brag about. But the company has become a poster boy for a renewed antisweatshop movement. Meanwhile, moves are afoot in Congress to hold manufacturers liable for their contractors' labor violations, and a presidential task force on sweatshops will soon release its report. Will Guess's hard-nosed exodus blunt efforts to improve the plight of U.S. garmentworkers? Not likely. "We're not going to roll over and play dead," AFL-CIO president John Sweeney says. But then again, neither is Guess...
...Ruffhouse/Columbia). Tough but tuneful, ready to entertain but unwilling to compromise, this Haitian-American rap trio proved that positive, semipolitical hip-hop could outsell gangsta rap--and alternative rock too. Drawing from reggae and soul, the Fugees created a fresh bicultural sound as bright as the Caribbean and as blunt as New Jersey...
Apparently, bad-mouthing the breed is considered the only way to blunt a Disney-fueled demand that could cause thousands of ill-conceived Dalmatians to be dumped on the market by puppy mills and thousands more dumped in the street by bored children who didn't really bank on that cuddly little puppy's growing up. Given the disaster-movie tone of the reports, it wouldn't surprise me to see citizens running in panic from their homes, shouting, "Help! Help! Dalmatian meltdown...