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...expensive, and teaching undergraduates will not pay for the entire cost of a graduate education. This is simply a financial reality that all graduate students, including those at universities other than Yale, must reckon with. The situation for teaching assistants at Yale may be especially difficult, as union organizers contend. But the particulars of the situation are not central to the main issue: that the teaching assistants should have the right to unionize...
...competition the Crimson faced this weekend was of a higher caliber than most, if not all of the Ivy League teams Harvard will contend with this spring...
...Crimson will also have to contend with Ilsa Webeck, Dartmouth's 6-4 senior center. However, in light of the way Harvard shut down Brown's twin towers--Martina Jerant and Chris Yasaitis--the team feels confident it can handle taller players inside...
Republicans contend that truly needy children will continue to receive benefits. But with this particular issue-which will affect 1 in 10 Americans, the majority of them children-Democrats have been given an opportunity to seize some political advantage. "The American public expects us to cut spending and downsize government," says Wisconsin Democrat David Obey, ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, "but I don't think they expect us to make war on kids...
Retrenchment, however, seems to be precisely the idea. Conservatives contend that free food has done little to solve the problems plaguing the nation. "What does a hot school lunch offer to a 16-year-old girl who is pregnant?" asks Robert Rector, senior policy analyst for welfare issues at the Heritage Foundation. "What does a hot school lunch offer two 16-year-olds in D.C. who are shooting each other in the school halls with semiautomatic weapons? ... Go into any housing project and you don't see kids bent over with rickets. You see strong healthy young...