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...administration's budget through the House. Day after day this week (and much of the last one, too) the administration figure hogging the front page of national newspapers was Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The missile-defense scheme he has championed for years took an important step closer to fruition as the White House dispatched its diplomats to pitch the project in the capitals of the world, and the press talked of a unified Space Command like so many excitable adolescents. But the primary reason for the media attention Rumsfeld enjoyed this week was the fact that he is playing maestro...
...what we're doing is preparing this report basically for him, with the idea that eventually it'll come to fruition as a comprehensive national energy policy and we're covering several different things. We're focusing obviously on increasing supply, and we're looking at all the various aspects of where we get energy from and the various sources that we use to generate electricity, and how we handled our transportation fuels, etc. We're talking about the whole question of the need to modernize our infrastructure. Part of the problem is not only the question of generating electric...
...drive toward exploration and analysis ought to be cultivated early, as the Playdough in the hands is as pliant as the Playdough in the head. This drive need only be guided and focused by educators further down the line, as the planted seeds of inquiry and thought grow to fruition. If the paralyzing awe of the world can be buttressed to withstand adolescence, the fertile mental fields and greater freedoms of youth will couple with this wonder to create a lust for lifelong learning...
Justice was supposed to emerge last summer at Camp David, when President Clinton spent more than two weeks trying to bring Oslo to fruition. Camp David, site of Egypt's 1979 peace deal with Israel, is Arab shorthand for a sellout. The Palestinians came with an old, unspoken grudge about perceived U.S. bias. They felt that the American team headed by Special Middle East Coordinator Ross had been strongly biased in favor of Israel for several years. The summit nearly collapsed on the third day, according to notes taken by the Palestinians, after Clinton submitted a draft proposal that described...
Universal, 24-hour keycard access for Harvard students came one step closer to fruition last night in Sever 113, as the Undergraduate Council unanimously passed a resolution to encourage House masters to open their doors to residents of other Houses...