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Throughout the fall campaign, Bush swore that he would be the "education President," yet his current budget, in fact, calls for a reduction in education spending. In a similar vein, Bush has repeatedly proclaimed a greater sensitivity to the needs of our environment than his predecessor held, but still showed remarkable passivity in the face of the Alaskan oil spill, seeming reluctant to confront one of the nation's major oil companies...
Stubbornly adhering to his "read my lips" campaign pledge that there will be "no new taxes," Bush offered a budget proposal that promised to reduce the current $160 billion deficit by over $70 billion during the next year, with mirrors...
Council Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89 said problems with E4D can be blamed on the current political climate. "E4D was founded when divestment was a very big campus issue," Lee said. "Obviously, here at Harvard and nationwide, interest in divestment has been waning...
Although the symposium was titled "Free Speech and the First Amendment," the five journalists and politicians spent the hour-and-a-half chatting about current events in a discussion moderated by Bromley Professor of Law Arthur R. Miller...
...many U.S. businessmen brand Japan as "protectionist" whenever some products fail to sell in Japan, even though the market is opening up. U.S. sales of telecommunications equipment in Japan, for example, reached $263.3 million last year, up from $106 million in 1985. Yet the U.S. is basing its current trade complaints at least partly on the problems Motorola has faced in getting frequency clearance in Tokyo for the cellular telephones it is selling in Japan; Tokyo considers the grievance too small to justify the hubbub surrounding it. Observes Peter Tasker, British author of The Japanese: "Japan is not alone...