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...cannot do it alone. I urge you to contact your state legislators in support of the student loan tax cut. --State Senator Cheryl A. Jacques, chair of the Senate Committee on Post Audit and Oversight and chief sponsor of the Student Loan Tax Cut Bill...
...times, furtively darting their eyes from left to right in an almost-reflexive attempt to gauge the status of the person next to them. There are no formal, verbalized rules of etiquette, just a silent code of conduct governing the vast unknown: thou shall not make accidental physical contact with thy seat mate; thou shall not speak; thou shall not meet another's gaze. To do any of the aforementioned would immediately render one "psycho," society's swift condemnation on deviation...
This observation is more or less true as well for two of this summer's potential movie blockbusters: Men in Black, an inventive action-comedy loosely based on lore about mysterious dark-suited agents who harass people who've seen UFOs; and the more solemn Contact, based on the Carl Sagan novel and said to be, in the words of its director Bob Zemeckis, the rare alien movie "rooted in true scientific believability." "We've done more for them than they do for us," says Price of Hollywood. A handsome, weather-beaten man with surprisingly still, pale blue eyes...
...firing 147 contract employees, most of whom worked with the immigrant community. Choosing enforcement over crime prevention, they nearly doubled the local police force from 36 to 60 officers. "The police have a new attitude," says Deputy Mayor Hubert Fayard. "Before, they weren't respected. Now they will seek contact. If they see delinquents, they will hunt them down. Our message to them is, 'Go somewhere else...
Jones: I am deeply grateful for the President's admission that he came into my world and changed it forever on May 8, 1991. As for the eye contact, it was my impression at the time that the Governor was evaluating me as a promising young state employee and not as a potential oral-sex partner, and I stand by that initial impression...