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...Then there's the departmental budget to consider: Because Congress failed to approve spending bills before the start of the fiscal year (on October 1st), the HSD, along with virtually every other federal endeavor, is operating under an assumed budgetary outline. There are sure to be battles - perhaps largely symbolic, given that come January, the GOP will have control over both houses of Congress - over exactly how much money is appropriated to which security measure. There are also concerns among Democrats and Republicans over several last-minute provisions tacked onto the HSD bill, including one (which raised particular hackles) that...
...brightly lit classroom is part birthday party, part serious academic endeavor. Daniel has brought in pizza and other snacks to sweeten the deal, and the sounds of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong drift up from the stereo. Groups of chattering students are sprinkled around the room. Some sit at the round tables covered with paper, markers and other debris. Others are splayed on the floor with their materials spread around them, and a few are cozied up on the overstuffed couches that line two of the walls. Daniel bounds around the room in response to different students’ calls...
...waged the military war on terror largely on its own, and shows every sign of doing the same in Iraq. If it comes to war against Baghdad, America will doubtless have key allies at its side, but NATO itself is not likely to be central to the endeavor. "NATO as a war-fighting machine is dead," says French defense analyst Fran?ois Heisbourg. "It would do well to stop pretending that's what it is." As George W. Bush and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld travel to Prague this week, those who still believe in the alliance are trying to figure...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers demonstrates. West has said that in a meeting last fall, Summers criticized the quality of his work and chastised him for not spending enough time on campus. West has said he felt he was being attacked for what he perceived as the very noble endeavor of making his scholarship accessible outside the ivory tower. He saw himself as a scholar who was not afraid to take a stand on issues of public significance...
...many, belly dancing is chiefly notable as the one endeavor outside of a wedding in which women are encouraged to wear veils. But it has changed the life of Nebraskan Faith Erdei, 51, a mother of 12 who works at a nuclear-power plant. Every week she drives the 50 miles to Lincoln to attend class because it's the one place she can feel feminine. Roni Flory, 27, of Carrolton, Texas, says learning to express herself through belly dancing has made her more effective at her sales job by giving her the confidence to talk to anyone...