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...problem with the $106 billion bill the Senate is working on that would help pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, preparation in case of a breakout of avian flu, rebuilding of the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina - and many tangentially related projects. Well, actually, the first-term Senator has at least 19 concerns. He called $176 million in the bill to refurbish a retirement home in Mississippi for veterans an "arbitrary sum." Another $10 million to equip fishing boats with logbooks to record data on how much they fish they were catching was "corporate welfare." And to Coburn...
...government concentrator at Harvard, first-term School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 campaigned to get the University to withdraw its investments from South Africa. Today, Nolan says her participation in that movement, which led to the Harvard Corporation’s partial divestment from its South African stock in 1986, taught her that with enough support grassroots movements could be successful. “That gave me a sense that you can effect change if you have enough dedicated people working on it and you mobilize the entire community,” she says.A quarter-century...
...time put into the budget drafting process, committee members said yesterday. The superintendent introduced the first draft to the committee early last month. Although committee member Richard Harding said that there “is something lacking” in the current budget drafting process, he said changes to the budget should be introduced early, and he ultimately voted against the motion. The Cambridge Public Schools superintendent, Thomas Fowler-Finn, said he sympathized with the frustrations expressed by the two first-term committee members, Nolan and Schuster. “I do think it’s difficult...
...Schuster, a first-term Committee member, said yesterday that the pledge complicates the mission of public schools...
...wealthy Illinois doctor, Proxmire moved to Wisconsin after determining it represented the best opportunity for a newcomer to break into politics. After three failed runs for governor, he finally was elected in 1957 to the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Joe McCarthy. The first-term Democrat almost immediately identified himself as a maverick, angering the chamber's legislative barons and successive administrations by opposing wasteful programs...