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After years of seeing their tax dollars squandered on dubious and counterproductive programs, the general public has finally come to the conclusion that the current system cannot continue in its present form. Even in Washington, the necessity of welfare reform has gained acceptance from across the political spectrum...
...implore Harvard to continue funding the Peabody's operations. I also challenge Harvard to recognize intellectual and cultural traditions from the Americas, Pacific, Africa and elsewhere. I recognize the new Islamic program as a start, but also point out that native America's cumulative "gift" (albeit received under dubious circumstances) to Harvard University (just beginning with eight million objects) probably has as much worth as any major gift from an alumnae or special concern today...
When first asked by a reporter for Gorton's rationale for the cuts, a spokesman said the Senator had based his decision on grounds similar to Babbitt's. But given Gorton's reputation as one of environmental regulation's stauncher foes, this was a dubious rationale. In fact, the Senator's battle with autonomous-and assertive-local Indian government goes back at least to the 1970s, when as an 11-year attorney general in Washington State, he found himself embroiled in high-profile court cases against area tribes over fishing rights and criminal jurisdiction. "I do not believe there...
From 1962, when Nikita Khrushchev sent him to Washington, until 1986, when Mikhail Gorbachev brought him home, the warm, wary and perceptive Dobrynin saw the cold war from an extraordinary vantage point: as the main conduit for a quarter-century of Kremlin-White House secret negotiations. As dubious exposes and skimpy memoirs poured out of the Soviet Union following its 1991 collapse, Dobrynin's remained the great untold story. Now the diplomat who had such confidence in his memory that he never took notes until meetings were over has put it all down in writing and delivered...
Kulikov is dubious about these American initiatives. He fears that sound forestry practices will be sacrificed early on because they have not yet proved profitable anywhere in the region. And even in the best of circumstances, U.S. solutions may not work. Says Yuri Du nishenko, the vice chairman of Kha barovsk's Wildlife Research Institute: "We have different soils and a much harsher climate than the U.S. What works in the U.S. may not work here...