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Despite increases in defense and security spending, President Bush’s budget reins in domestic expenditures. President Franklin Roosevelt, Class of 1904, showed us that this is a prudent course in a time of war. Between 1942 and 1944, non-war spending was cut more than 20 percent. President Truman went further, reducing non-defense spending 28 percent in one year during the Korean War. Without the need for full mobilization, non-war and non-security expenditures will increase next year, though only at a modest 2 percent. The dismal fiscal and economic environment that followed the Vietnam...
...movie. Actor Jeffrey Wright closely observed Bingham, who was on hand to take pictures and help safeguard historical accuracy. Jamie Foxx studied tapes of Ali's late, drug-addled corner man Drew (Bundini) Brown. Jon Voight, who last summer hid himself under layers of prosthetics as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Pearl Harbor, again endured hours each day in the makeup chair, this time disguising himself as Howard Cosell. The witty verbal sparring between Ali and Cosell provides some of the movie's most entertaining moments. "If you talk to Ali today," says Voight, "the first thing that will happen...
...Aretha Franklin begins singing “Rescue Me” on the radio as McClary jokes to his coworkers, “You all ready to come in at eight in the morning tomorrow...
...would have had the party even if the Pats weren’t in it,” said Mark J. Franklin ’02, who co-hosted a big Currier bash, “but there is a lot more emotion this...
...Franklin and his roommates hosted a four-TV, two-keg party filled with New England supporters. Students crowded onto five couches, stood in corners and curled up on the floor while drinking Bud Light out of personalized mugs and jumbo-sized soup containers...