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...simply to spend $12 billion or so in a phantom month between fiscal 2000 (the year currently being budgeted) and fiscal 2001. That, folks like Specter are hoping, will be enough to cover a few more necessaries without violating the letter of the 1997 agreement. The spirit of that deal lies in tatters, of course; creative lawmakers have already have exempted nearly $28 billion in proposed spending from the caps ? largely through "emergency" spending ? even with only a 12-month year. That might be too expedient, even for the Beltway. "There are those in both parties who are saying, ?Enough...
Then I started hearing rumors about myself. A guy at Fox told me my name popped up in a development meeting. I realized that this was the biggest opportunity I'd ever have to sell a script. The trick would be signing a deal before anyone found out I couldn't write one. This may be how most movies get made...
...into place at that age, so everyone is on an even playing field." Marylouise Ortega-Lau, principal of the Wilson Classical High School in that district, notes that "there is a more businesslike attitude as a result of wearing the uniform--and you need to show students how to deal in the world of work and business, where there are limits on dress...
...according to the city's mental-health agency. Of those, 40,000 have serious, persistent mental-health problems. In Memphis, Tenn., police with mental-health training, as part of a crisis-intervention team, are sent to any scene involving an unstable individual. In Los Angeles, police specifically trained to deal with the mentally ill respond to reports of EDPs in some cases. In New York, police get 16 hrs. of training at the academy in dealing with EDPs. Police officials say the officers involved in the Busch shooting followed all guidelines...
...Still, the idea of essentially bribing North Korea not to cause trouble has become part of Washington?s playbook since a 1994 deal that dismantled Pyongyang?s weapons-grade nuclear energy program in exchange for substantial energy and food aid from Japan, South Korea and the U.S. "We may be buying them off, but that?s the cheapest thing we can do at the moment," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Even if we were to send troops and threaten them, that would be unlikely to ease tensions. And the money does influence them." In these wacky post-Cold...