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...says discourse is necessary among Faculty members so they can transcend their differences and create a "united front" to bolster Harvard's language requirements...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Clinton Administration opposes the renewed GOP push to use medical savings accounts to bolster Medicare's finances, but at a meeting Tuesday with GOP leaders, President Clinton agreed to go along with a test run of the plan. As part of a proposal to reduce projected Medicare spending by 12 percent over five years, House Republicans wanted to establish accounts for all 38 million Medicare recipients, on the premise that patients faced with the opportunity to salt away money they don?t spend on medical care will spend less of it. Tuesday?s compromise: a test program...
...Mercury News, mostly reporting from Sacramento, the state capital, maintains that the paper "is not backing down from the central assertion of the story"--that cocaine sold in Los Angeles in the 1980s produced money for the contras. He says he has written four follow-up stories that bolster his allegations: one featuring an eyewitness interview that, Webb claims, confirms some dollar figures, and another based on documents that allegedly show "how far up in the CIA this thing went." (Ceppos, who will not comment beyond his published statements, has characterized Webb's new material as only "notes...
...Dick Thompson reports that NASA's decision not to dump Russia was based on a sense of loyalty as well as political considerations: "For one, NASA has had a longstanding commitment to work with them. Secondly, there are political reasons in that the U.S. government wants to help bolster the Russian economy. Allowing them to participate in this project is one way that can happen. Finally, the Russians have more experience living and working in space than anyone else...
Wanted: caring adults to act as mentors, one on one, to disadvantaged kids. Safe places for those youths to hang out and pursue supervised play after school. Immunizations and health care to bolster their bodies; "effective education" to give them marketable skills. Financing and volunteer help to give 2 million youngsters all these services; 5 million others, at least one. Thus helping to a better start in life nearly half the 15 million kids thought now to be "at risk"--of being lost to poverty and crime, though no one puts it that crudely. All in the next four years...