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...CONTEXT: Kerry did fight the MX, voted to cut funds for missile defense and the B-2 Stealth bomber, and proposed cutting the intelligence budget $300 million a year from 1996 to 2000. But it was the first President Bush who halted production of the MX, and Republicans including Senator John McCain have opposed building more B-2s. On intelligence, Kerry says he wanted to scale back money for expensive spy satellites and put more into human intelligence. Another G.O.P. charge: that Kerry voted 10 times in 1990 against weapons like the F-15, F-16, Patriot missile...
...CONTEXT: Democrats claim that Bush has not provided enough money for the law. He gave the low-income schools that No Child is supposed to improve only $12 billion of the $18 billion the law allows him to spend. Even so, Bush has dramatically increased the money for these schools, boosting their funding from $9 billion in Clinton's last budget. Overall, money for public education under Bush has increased from $17 billion to $24 billion. Kerry also blasts Bush for turning schools into "testing factories," but his aides say Kerry would still require yearly math and reading tests...
...genitalia in one of the year’s more unsettling images. The ensuing relationship transforms the gloomiest cooler in town into an exuberant lucky charm. Imbuing the endearingly wretched Macy with supernatural powers is a welcome violation of character expectations, but falls apart in the context of a film that doubles down on every available Vegas movie cliché, from the brutal, solitary casino owner and his cadre of double-chinned thugs to the gilded-heart hooker. After an innocuous first act, the plot quickly careens into a darker realm that can’t sustain the levity...
Keb’ Mo’s new CD is called Keep It Simple, but he fails to keep his promise. Keb’ Mo’ is considered one of the foremost modern jazz guitarists, an assessment that continues to be accurate-—but in this context, it is both laudatory and critical...
...challenge is how to meet this need in an environment where the costs of health care are becoming significant parts of the budget. For Harvard, as for every other institution responsible for providing health care services, the issue of quality of care has to be addressed in the context of the costs and the benefits of that care...