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...federal government run a deficit this year, thanks to the recession, the tax cut and the war on terror, but President Bush will propose a budget in the next few weeks that projects a deficit just over $100 billion for fiscal 2003. No surpluses are projected until the latter half of the decade. Bush has reacted angrily to a suggestion by Ted Kennedy that the part of his tax cut that goes to the wealthiest Americans should be repealed before it goes into effect in 2005. Most Democrats aren't even asking for that despite their criticism...
...Palestinian side, there are signs of a new willingness to move beyond traditional articles of faith, and even to challenge Arafat himself. The latter move, of course, is coming more from his own left flank, where some legislators, activists and intellectuals such as human rights campaigner Mustafa Barghouti have launched a campaign to strengthen Palestinian democracy - a direct challenge to the authoritarian cronyism of Arafat's regime - and a shift back towards non-violent protest against Israel's occupation in what they consider to be an "overly-militarized intifada." And Arafat's own point-man in Jerusalem, the philosophy professor...
...Green's case has divided Utah, where polygamy, although banned a century ago by both the state and its dominant religious group, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is nonetheless still widely practiced. The last bigamy trial was held in the 1950s, and today an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 people live in polygamous households in Utah. But Green's wives were particularly young when he married them--14 to 16. And unlike most polygamists, who live discreetly, Green has been vocal in his support of plural marriage. An interview he gave...
...some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the world “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few, and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
Shevchik claimed victory in the 200 backstroke and the 400 individual medley, winning the latter race with a time...