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Most important, on a day when Congress voted to fulfill Bush's campaign promise to reduce capital-gains taxes for the wealthy, Governors of both parties pressed for information on when Bush would redeem another campaign pledge: to fund fully the Head Start program for needy preschoolers. Head Start has proved cost-effective in preparing disadvantaged students for school, but can now accommodate only about 1 in 5 of those eligible. As the summit closed, White House chief of staff John Sununu noted that "the Governors succeeded quite well in convincing the President of the value of preschool and early...
...Kamisar: "The Warren Court took cases where Government won ((in lower courts)). This court seems to be taking cases where Government lost below. It is putting liberal judges back in line." Civil rights and civil liberties groups have taken note. Ronald Ellis of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund admits that, in order not "to tempt the fates," his organization has refrained from appealing cases to the high court and is considering filing more suits in state courts...
...need more science now, not less. How can we stretch our nerves around those numbers and make them as real and as ominous as our cholesterol readings? Repeat them each night on the evening news? We need feedback, as if we were the audience in a giant public radio fund-raising drive hitting the phones and making pledges. Like expert pilots navigating through a foggy night, we need the faith to fly the planet collectively by our instruments and not by the seat of our pants. In the West we need the faith and courage to admit the bitter truth...
...Democrats' proposals to allow early IRA withdrawals to fund tuition or buy a first home, however, would complicate the now simple IRA, raise the potential for abuse and reduce the amount ultimately saved for retirement. Congress might better allow IRAs to be pledged as collateral on education loans and first-home mortgages. Any tinkering should focus on how to get people to put more into IRAs (perhaps by raising the $2,000 annual allowable contribution, even if the excess were not deductible) rather than on ways to let them take money...
That figure is in addition to the $252 million in food and economic assistance to both countries pledged earlier by President George Bush. Last week, addressing the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, Bush declared that "we must do more." In the case of Poland, the Administration is planning to increase its assistance program. Though the White House offered few details about what it called a "new package of support" for Poland, aides hinted that a half-billion dollars' worth of credits and loans would be announced this week. Officials said it would be channeled through agencies...