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...passed last month by the Senate, outdoing an only slightly less severe offering by the House, slashes the bureau's $1.7 billion budget a third. Deer has announced that the BIA may lay off up to 4,000 of its 12,000 employees by month's end, the most drastic personnel cut currently being contemplated by any federal agency. Just as important, the Senate bill targets moneys that bulwark greater tribal autonomy. Says Kurt Russo, coordinator of the Treaty Task Force of Washington State's Lummi Nation: "What you're seeing is a smart bomb going straight to the heart...
...nation's capital in a last-ditch attempt to influence the conference that will reconcile the House and Senate versions of the cuts. But unless they provoke a huge public outcry, most of the cuts will probably stand, and the fortunes of an already unfortunate people may take another drastic downturn...
...even faster in 15 years or so when the baby-boom generation starts to reach retirement and decrepitude. There is simply no way that the current system can continue indefinitely. Although there is nothing magic about the years 1995 or 2002, the sooner reforms are made, the less drastic they will have...
...turnover in writing staff has been just as drastic. Of the 17 writers on board this year, 12 are newcomers. (Most come from performance rather than print backgrounds; Michaels this time has generally avoided raiding his usual source, the Harvard Lampoon.) In some ways, SNL is a victim of its own success. Writers can now find many other markets in prime time for their talents, at least in part because of the SNL influence: several of last year's younger writers have left for shows like Seinfeld, The Simpsons and News Radio. "The sensibility of SNL is all over...
...this year, Terry, who delivered his diatribe by fax, shrugged off suggestions his comments could be incendiary. But TIME's David Van Biema cautions: "The threat probably won't come from Terry himself, but from fringe elements who could well interpret these unhelpful Nazi metaphors as an invitation to drastic measures...