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...fund the program to raising the retirement age. But that doesn't help members of his party answer the pointed questions at those town halls-events which one senior Republican House aide said in some cases were "horrific." Because the President will not pick a route, members have to defend all possible choices. "They can't go home and defend 17 different opinions," says a senior Congressional Republican staffer worried about the next Congressional recess in two weeks. Based on the President's strategy, they're going to have...
...reason that Harvard has not been able to sweep the Princeton-Penn road trip since 1985. This year will be no less challenging than those in the past; despite the fact that the Ivy title has already been locked up by Penn, both proud programs will be ready to defend their home courts and their pride against the Crimson...
...agree on the European Union's plan to lift its embargo on supplying defense technology to China, imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Bush wants the embargo to stay, lest European goods one day be used against U.S. forces, who are pledged to defend Taiwan from an unprovoked attack by China. Chirac, by contrast, said that the embargo "is no longer justified and has to be lifted...
...teenage pregnancies, more widespread use of contraception, abstinence programs and cultural shifts toward sexual restraint among young women. None of these strategies separately is a panacea, but each has a part to play. So what's the new pro-choice line? Let's keep up the progress. Let's defend the right to an abortion while doing all we can to ensure that fewer and fewer women exercise it. Leave the contentious issue of Roe v. Wade for one minute, quit the ideological bickering about when life begins for a while, take down the barricades, and craft a strategy that...
DIED. ROBERT KEARNS, 77, feisty inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, who took on automotive giants to defend his patents; of cancer; in Sykesville, Md. Kearns battled Ford and Chrysler all the way to the Supreme Court, winning $30 million in settlements but never peace of mind...