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...After Robert Byrd broke the ice in a hearing Wednesday by questioning the war's price tag, Majority Leader Tom Daschle told reporters Thursday that the U.S. must add two more prisoners to its X-Ray pen - Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden - "or we will have failed." Trent Lott, through his spokesman, was very upset; Bush, through his, played it cooler, with Ari Fleischer drily informing reporters Thursday that "individuals are free to focus on any one person if they think that's the best way to conduct foreign policy. That's a different approach than the president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Terrorists Win a Few | 3/1/2002 | See Source »

...reform bill was hailed both by its Republican authors and former President Bill Clinton, who co-opted it as the pièce de resistance in dismantling the Great Society and replacing it with an era of so-called personal responsibility. The bill took a federal entitlement program and broke it up into 50 different allocations that the states could use for welfare purposes as they saw fit with a few provisos: for example, half of all single parents receiving welfare had to work at least 30 hours per week. Conveniently enacted in a buoyant economy, the bill...

Author: By Daniel K. Rosenheck, | Title: Bush Abandons His Own | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

...lost a step after that,” Kessler said. “If he hadn’t broke his leg, he’d probably be receiving offers from some mid-major Division I schools...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Next Clemente? | 2/27/2002 | See Source »

Despite missing part of his sophomore season with a broken foot, Martin entered this season with 1,246 career points, trailing only the Earl brothers and Allen on Shawnee’s all-time scoring list. Last year, he broke the elder Earl’s school record for points in a game when he exploded...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Next Clemente? | 2/27/2002 | See Source »

Harvard would have officially proposed its new wage number last Tuesday, but the negotiations broke early because of a civil disobedience session scheduled by the union, Jones said...

Author: By Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Union Readies For Today’s Civil Disobedience | 2/26/2002 | See Source »

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