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...endorse the fee increase without a caveat. Though a larger budget will help student groups on campus, the council itself can regain legitimacy only by reducing its size-and fast. Having fewer representatives would increase competition in House elections and thereby increase the council's credibility...
...vote-getting issue is no sure thing. But the fact that he's trying shows that suburban overgrowth has become a national headache. Instead of just fleeing the sprawl (and thus creating more of it), people are groping for ways to fight it. Last November there were no fewer than 240 antisprawl ballot initiatives around the country. Most of them passed. Some stripped local authorities of the power to approve new subdivisions without voter assent. Others okayed tax money to buy open land before the developers get it. In the largest of those, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman successfully...
...When intelligence analysts studied the data from nine Chinese nuclear tests from 1990 to 1995, they were chagrined to discover that the blasts involved a miniaturized warhead that was a near replica of the W-88. They also concluded, sources tell TIME, that China had acquired details of no fewer than five other U.S. warheads...
...case against McDougal, along with the June 14 trial of Hillary?s former law partner Webster Hubbell, are certain to stir all the old questions about Hillary?s own ethics. Her name was mentioned no fewer than 36 times in the indictment against Hubbell last fall. But despite the new signal of how bumpy a ride she may face, Hillary headed off to North Africa no closer to a decision, an adviser says. ?She?s exactly where she was four weeks...
More than any other attorney general, Janet Reno knows something about independent counsels. She has recommended the appointment of no fewer than seven during her tenure and refused to seek the appointment of a least two, most prominently on issues pertaining to Democratic campaign finances. In each instance, she has been buffeted by hurricane-force political winds. On Wednesday Reno got her chance to do her own huffing and puffing -- and do her best to blow down the whole institution in front of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. A supporter of the statute in 1993, Reno has now changed course...