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...result, Indian governments now control about 40% of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' $1.9 billion budget. Self-government without development, however, has merely given many Indians the responsibility to administer their own poverty: they still have the shortest life-spans, highest infant-mortality rate, highest high school dropout rate and most extensive health problems of any U.S. ethnic group...
...mistake was not releasing a plan of his own," says a Clinton insider. "If he had, it's possible we might have ended up being the third candidate in the race." (Perot's advisers did eventually produce a highly detailed plan -- but only after the Texan's July 16 dropout...
...soccer ball named after a Harvard dropout and made from, and shaped like, a carbon molecule will be marketed in the United States beginning next month...
...this election is that people have begun to realize how painful and unsustainable the current way of doing things is. We can't borrow a billion dollars every 24 hours. We can't tolerate 40 million working Americans with no health insurance whatsoever. We can't tolerate a 29% dropout rate, an epidemic of violence and drugs and AIDS. We have to respond to these realities, and people are now willing to consider the changes that our nation must go through...
Turner isn't the only billionaire who has snubbed Harvard. William Gates, Harvard dropout and founder of Microsoft Corp., was named the richest person in America by Forbes magazine recently...