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...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...
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...
...admits to being overzealous at times and points to corrective steps now in the works, such as changing the 11-day rule in the wetlands definition. But environmentalists contend that reform is not what's on Republicans' minds. Says Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope: "The agenda they have set is not to fix these laws but to weaken them...
...catch rebel leaders for whom he had caused arrest warrants to be issued and offered the Zapatistas amnesty and political negotiations if they would lay down their arms. He even went along with one of the rebels' prime demands: the resignation of Chiapas Governor Eduardo Robledo, who the Zapatistas contend had won his post in a fraudulent election...