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...Congressional race in the Evergreen State’s 8th district, Republican incumbent David G. Reichert’s campaign has challenged an assertion made by Darcy G. Burner ’96 that she received an economics degree from Harvard...
...Even so, the troubled U.S. homeowner is not among the priorities of those in Washington who are dishing out rescue funds. The Treasury Department plans to spend $250 billion of the $700 billion rescue package approved by Congress earlier this month on capitalizing banks. To the back burner went Treasury's original plan to buy up distressed mortgage bonds, and along with it the idea that such purchases could be used to pressure banks into giving better loan deals to homeowners facing foreclosure...
...months of pitched battle and a summer of what-ifs would change anyone; they've turned Clinton into a first-rate stage presence. She followed a tough act, Montana governor Brian Schweitzer, who woke up a drowsy crowd with a barn burner of a speech on - of all things - energy independence. Yet Clinton managed, without a lot of poetry or melodrama, to take the gathered Democrats up another couple of notches toward fever country...
...ROAD TO AIDID RUNS THROUGH GEORGIA, EVENTUALLY Washington -- When Jimmy Carter visited the White House last month, he carried a message from Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid of his willingness to cooperate with an investigation into the killings of U.N. peacekeepers. Since Somalia wasn't a front-burner issue then, President Clinton filed the tip away but asked National Security Adviser Anthony Lake to debrief Carter at some . point. That point wasn't reached until after the Oct. 3 attack that killed 18 U.S. soldiers. Lake flew to Plains last Thursday to meet with Carter...
...important respects, an education in physics is founded on the use of the Bunsen burner. Concentrators learn a great deal from the heating experience and contact between the open flame and the experimental materials, complementing the experience of problem sets and other laboratory work. Harvard does not admit physics undergraduates without the understanding that Bunsen burners will be an integral aspect of their education...