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...schools achieve their diversity targets, but they also nearly always pay full tuition. In California alone last year, 66,000 foreign students paid colleges nearly $700 million in tuition and fees. But after the terrorist attacks of two weeks ago, the open door may start closing. Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, suggested a six-month moratorium on the issuance of student visas. Even the American Council on Education, a lobbying group that represents most of the nation's colleges, recognizes that student visa policy will have to change. Says senior vice president Terry Hartle: "We all realize the government...
...combat air rage, Sen. Dianne Feinstein has asked airlines...
...gotten some small comfort from the support she's received from government officials. Levy praised California's Senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, for showing concern for her and calling her family about the case. Interestingly, she noted that California's Governor Gray Davis has yet to call her family: "Nope. I've never head from him," Susan Levy says. Both of Condit's grown children work for the California governor, who was a political ally of Condit...
...Wednesday morning McCain and Feingold orchestrated matters to produce precisely the same number of votes for the Thompson and Feinstein proposals, to force both sides to the table while assuring they were on exactly equal footing. The summit was supposed to last an hour and a half, but stretched on for three. "Outside of Vietnam, I don't think John's ever been in a room for three hours," adviser John Weaver said dryly...
...slipped into the chamber to huddle with a visibly tense Daschle. Back in the L.B.J. Room, Thompson proffered one last piece to seal the deal: the G.O.P. had moved much further on the hard-money limits; if the Democrats would index the limits for inflation, they had a deal. Feinstein shot out of the room to take the offer to Daschle, and for a few final moments the Republicans waited. When the deal was done, Thompson grabbed his throat with both hands, mock-choking over the compromise he had struck...