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...America Online is going like lightning," Murdoch pointedly told Time in March, "but they are spending a lot of money to enlist customers." Murdoch also said then that next season he plans to introduce a new and more sophisticated version of Delphi, which he hopes will feature new access software that will make it easier for subscribers to point and click their way onto the Internet. That could put him head-to-head with software's maximum leader, Bill Gates, whose Windows 95, set to debut in August, also promises to speed users onto...
Lourdes, like a Chekhovian heroine yearning for Moscow, has dreams only of leaving for the U.S., and this American may be her passport out. But Richard already has a wife, and in order to rescue his Eve he has to enlist the support of an acquaintance, a dull young English schoolteacher named Hugo, in a marriage of convenience. How the plans go awry and what consequences await the sultry Lourdes in provincial England provide one of the novel's darker, not to say drizzlier, ironies. As another character remarks, "In Cuba, you believe everything or you believe nothing. Because everything...
...Undergraduate Council is travelling in the right direction by attempting to enlist as much student participation as possible. However, whether or not Harvard's student representative body receives the "greater authority and real power" that The Crimson discusses is ultimately up to the student body of Harvard. If you are concerned about an issue at Harvard, from Core reform to housing assignments to ROTC, call your undergraduate representative to find out how you can help the council to resolve the issue. David S. Goodman '97 The writer is the secretary of the Undergraduate Council...
...other troubling question is, Who pays? ``Businesses don't simply absorb increased wage costs,'' says Rob Shapiro, whom Labor Secretary Robert Reich tried hard (and unsuccessfully) to enlist as a supporter of the raise because, as a top Clinton campaign adviser, it was Shapiro who once convinced Clinton that hiking the wage was counterproductive. ``They pass them on in the form of higher prices, which are regressive because they're borne equally by all. Thus the vast majority of the 39 million poor Americans who won't benefit from a raise will be worse off, while a very...
...attempts to gut welfare if they endanger benefits to children. "We must pass welfare reform this year, but it ought to be the right kind with the right results," Clinton said. In a vote later in the day, the 30 Republican governors in the NGA failed to enlist enough Democratic backers to reach the 3/4 requirement needed for NGA endorsement of their welfare reform proposal...