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...least since the current Congress has been moving in the direction of less government, we're producing a product for a that is in severe recession," says Professor of Business and Government Frederick M. Scherer. "That is going to be a real difficult problem for students coming on board this year...
...family of American aid worker Frederick Cuny said he was executed by Chechen rebels on April 14 after Russian intelligence agents spread rumors that he was an anti-Chechen spy. Cuny, who was awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant last June, was on a humanitarian mission to develop an aid plan for Chechnya. Although a Russian official said his government believed Cuny was still alive, U.S. diplomats in Moscow said they agreed with the family. ISRAELI ATROCITIES ALLEGED...
Leonardo da Vinci stood on one end of the stage, Mickey Mantle on the other. The Mick seemed a little out of place in the company of Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Mahatma Gandhi, but this was my son's third-grade class biography project, titled Who Am I?, and an understanding teacher had allowed him to portray his favorite baseball player, a preference passed down like DNA from both his mother and his father. "I was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, in 1931," said this child born in New York City...
...first of these, a review by CIA inspector general Frederick Hitz--later confirmed in broad outline by the President's Intelligence Oversight Board--arrived on selected Washington desks early last week. It is a document offering many pages (700 plus) but little closure. Agency officials summarizing it have asserted that their organization broke no laws in connection with Alpirez. The CIA did pay him, Hitz found, but it never possessed (let alone covered up) sufficient evidence to establish him as a party to either killing. This is not, however, because no such evidence existed; top CIA sources hurry to concede...
...Challenge Grants program, in place since 1977, has generated more than $1.3 billion in nonfederal aid for American libraries, museums, universities and colleges. Its net of activities reaches very wide. It funds the study and publication of essential archives, like the papers of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Twain and Dwight Eisenhower. (Twenty-eight volumes of Washington's papers alone have appeared so far.) It has given more than $1 million to a projected 21-volume documentary history of the ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It sponsored Ken Burns' TV series...