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What once seemed an unassailable idea is now ensnared in presidential politics, the byzantine workings of phone deregulation and the design flaws of a funding scheme that camouflages the costs of a huge new federal program by putting it on people's phone bills. Only 75 days into the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore's Costly High-Wire Act | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

That's the easy part. Appeasing the phone companies will be harder. "While we support the goal of wiring classrooms," says MCI spokesman Brad Burns, "we don't think we should be put in the position of playing fee collector for the Federal Government." The long-distance companies have already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore's Costly High-Wire Act | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

According to a release issued by the committee, Kim, a women's studies concentrator, plans to travel to South Africa to study the emerging voice of women in testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Author: By David A. Campbell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Juniors Awarded Grants for Africa Travel | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

Two informants approached the family with fresh information about the killing. Meanwhile, county voters elected a new D.A., Lindsey Carter, who was more committed to the case than his predecessor. Two months ago, the state released 132,000 pages of documents from its infamous Sovereignty Commission, a secretive organization that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Widow And The Wizard | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

Unlike in Massachusetts, it is legal to sell liquor in New Hampshire on Sundays, and so the border exemption was made to keep liquor stores from losing the business. However, the law allows towns with so much as a sliver of land within 10 miles of New Hampshire to be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Retire the Blue Laws | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

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