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...outgoing spy chief ROBERT GATES urged them to reject a $1 billion cut in the program's budget. Senators described the $1 billion slash as a 5% cut. If 5% of the budget is $1 billion, the program's budget must be $20 billion. Intelligence officials, with a wink, confirm the figure. Basic math skills + common sense = government secrets revealed...
Sadly, to borrow the words that once appeared on report cards, new studies confirm that Head Start "does not live up to potential." The well-known formula cited by Clinton ("One dollar spent now saves three later") reflects the success of one non-Head Start project at the Perry Preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan, in the 1960s. The latest investigation of Head Start itself, by the Health and Human Services Department, calls many of the approximately 1,300 Head Start programs that currently serve about 700,000 children poorly run and unsuccessful at providing youngsters with even basic care. Yale Professor...
Kennedy School spokesperson Steven R. Singer said he was reluctant to confirm that Bane would be leaving after her two-year leave expires...
Perhaps in Pakistan. Kansi, a member of a wealthy Pakistani family, has reportedly been seen in his hometown of Quetta. "We're trying to confirm that he's there," says Fairfax County police department spokesperson Robert Wall. "Pakistani officials are cooperating in the fullest." Still, the question remains: If Kansi did commit the alleged crime, why? No explanation so far is satisfactory. Says Wall: "There are a million theories. They have to be % checked one at a time." Law-enforcement officials may have to catch the man to find the motive...
...editor in which Haneen M. Rabie '95 and Layla F. Sahyoun '94, members of the Society of Arab Students, charged me with racism in the handling of their Harvard Foundation grant application. The charges are unsubstantiated and false, and the fact that The Crimson printed them without attempting to confirm them or get a response from me attests to The Crimson's low (nonexistent?) standards of journalistic ethics...