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...Columbus arrived on Cuba, Hispaniola and other islands in the Caribbean he instituted shockingly cruel and genocidal policies which rapidly decimated the populations of indigenous Arawak Indians. He was also a slave trader, and his own words condemn him. Furthermore, the claim that he "discovered" the New World is dubious--he accidentally came into contact with a culture that had existed for hundreds if not thousands of years...
Whatever money OTI gets from their performances goes towards transportation costs and jackets for the team, although the group has yet to agree on a jacket design. And although some dubious fund-raising schemes were apparently discussed recently, including convincing unsavvy first-years to buy season OTI tickets at $10 each, none have been implemented...
...unprecedented act of immigrant bashing, the welfare bill also threatens to cut off assistance to thousands of legal immigrants. Despite Clinton's appeals for employers to hire former welfare recipients it is highly dubious that the job market can absorb such a great influx of unskilled or marginally skilled workers. The precious little funds that have been allotted for job training are woefully inadequate. And the true victims of the welfare bill are children--a study by the Urban Institute and an internal report by the HHS estimate that one million children will be pushed into poverty as a result...
That's one reason many competitors in the race for a new engine remain exceedingly dubious. "I consider Rosen Motors to be a very small part of the overall flywheel effort," says Joe Beno, program manager for the electric-vehicle program at the University of Texas at Austin, whose group will put a flywheel motor in a commercial bus in Houston next year. Kevin M. Myles, director of the electrochemical technology program at Argonne National Laboratory, who has done extensive work with alternative-fuel vehicles, doesn't think the Rosens have addressed the safety problems inherent in flywheels. A wheel...
...your report on television coverage of the convention in San Diego [THE REPUBLICANS, Aug. 26]: while I accept the dubious honor you bestowed on me as the "gushiest anchorman" for my remarks about Elizabeth Dole's speech, I myself prefer the appellation "kinder, gentler anchorperson." DAN RATHER Anchor and Managing Editor CBS News New York City...