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...group's goals encompass its three basic missions: researching, advising and teaching...
...government when it comes to the Pentagon." TIME senior writer Elizabeth Gleick reports: "The political goals of the march are very vague. Organizers want to generate the same kind of exhilaration that the Million Man March generated and raise the focus on children's issues. But children's issues encompass so much, that the goals depend on who you are and what you think the government's role should be in raising children...
...Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, 53, has begun to emerge from the obscurity and isolation he cultivated for most of his life. And as he comes to the surface, so does David, 46, his brother and his keeper. No one quite expected the saga of the Unabomber to encompass such poignance--and such eternal parables. The prodigal and the faithful son, the favorite and the outcast, the firstborn and the younger are characters as old as the Bible that resound in every family today. And here, with surprising pangs of recognition, are variations on themes that began with Cain and Abel...
Since the creation of the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC) this year, the council as a whole has retooled its focus, broadening its conception of its mission on campus to encompass everything from the controversy over Phillips Brooks House to divestment from Nigeria. While the long-term effects of this shift in priorities are yet to be determined, the immediate result has been a massive increase in the energy and spirit with which the council debates issues...
...Making college education available to all Americans by expanding the federal work-study program to encompass one million students, increasing the number of Pell grants and maintaining the National Service Program...