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...wants to continue to buttress financial aid for graduate students, to ease the burden for starving scholars...
...material evidence lies beneath 270 ft. of restless ocean. But this case has run smack into taut Middle East sensitivities. Egyptians and Muslims everywhere deeply resent the apparent assumption that any Islamic prayer automatically betokens an act of terror. So far, they charge, there is no other evidence to buttress a suicide theory...
...away with. Conservative cyberjournalist Matt Drudge found that out Thursday when Fox canceled his weekly political gossip show. The problems began when the channel's executives wouldn't allow him to show a photo of a fetus receiving surgery. Drudge says the graphic photo was meant to buttress his pro-life stance, but the channel heads felt it was being used out of context. When Drudge missed his show in protest, he was handed his walking papers...
...cash unless the White House agrees to a ban on U.S. funding of all programs that promote abortion rights. Clinton's acceptance of the conservatives' language - allowing himself the loophole of executive waivers for specific cases - would ensure that the U.S. keeps its vote in the General Assembly, and buttress the administration's global clout...
...Reagan (Random House; 874 pages; $35). There is fact and there is fiction, and they are jumbled together. The facts are meticulously footnoted in an epic 115-page section at the end of the book. But so is the fiction. Morris has created detailed and utterly false notes to buttress the fanciful parts of his book, which feature a fictional character, also named Edmund Morris, who is a contemporary of Dutch Reagan's. That he called the book a "memoir" and not a biography is of course a tip-off to the game...