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Reports in yesterday's Boston Herald that the Clinton Administration surprised lawmakers with a proposal to cut nearly $1 million from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., were misleading, congressional and lab officials said yesterday...
Because one of Harvard and Radcliffe's goals is to foster and sustain healthy and congenial associations among students of diverse backgrounds (race is only one difference), it is important to hole the colleges to high standards in such matters, when thinking about successful race relations...
...cover the 37 million Americans who presently lack insurance, but what about the rest of us? Here's where managed competition starts looking more like Dr. Jekyll than Dr. Welby. All the analysis behind it -- cooked up by academics and insurance-company reps schmoozing at comfortable seminars in Jackson Hole, Wyoming -- assumes that given a little insurance, Americans greedily drive up expenditures by "overutilizing" care...
...system is too vast and too easily repaired to be destroyed by the rebels' sporadic attacks. One guerrilla leader admitted that a recent raiding party had detonated more than 1,000 lbs. of TNT in one of the bigger earthworks with little effect. "It just made a small hole that released some water," he said, "but it was repaired in two days using a diesel shovel...
...promulgated his decree on private ownership of land a year ago, says one Moscow intellectual, "he wouldn't be in the mess he is now." Robert Legvold, director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and a supporter of Yeltsin, says, "He's in a very deep hole, so his plan is not likely to work. It's an act of extraordinary desperation. He let the situation get away from...