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Race. The issue at the center of it all, of course, was slavery, the terrible crack in the American design...
...well as some of their Republican critics, for appearing to use the Oklahoma tragedy to score points off the right wing. The next day the President backpedaled, saying he had attacked extremism "from the left or the right." He also said he would ask Congress for $1.5 billion to crack down on terrorism, outlining a plan that would include hiring 1,000 additional law enforcers, require explosive materials to be chemically "tagged" to make them easier to track down and make it easier for the FBI to trace and eavesdrop on phone calls...
Harvard, whose policy toward alcohol on campushad been termed liberal in the past, has beenforced by the state to crack down on underagedrinking in recent years...
...Without AFDC I wouldn't be here today. I'mjust glad I'm not out on the streets right now,selling crack like a lot of the other kids I know.I hope the government appreciates how important aprogram it is," he said...
Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee pressed the Clinton Administration to take the first crack at avolatile Medicare overhaul, but Democrats weren't biting. At a hearing today, Committee chairman Bill Archer (R-Tx.) accused the White House of holding the $175 billion Medicare program "hostage" to its insistence on broader health reforms. But Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, testifying before the panel, fired back by suggesting the GOP was simply exaggerating Medicare's fiscal problems as an excuse to slash $300 billion by 2002 in order to fund tax cuts and balance the budget...