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...lust for tax cuts while making good on Bush's promise to be a "compassionate conservative." That means a plan that does more than bestow a huge tax rebate on the wealthiest Americans. Bush "wants to make sure that the people on the outskirts of poverty are not left behind," Michael Boskin, a member of the economic team, told TIME. "And you can expect that he will propose policies to do something about that...
Their successes came in spite of coaching complications, as head coach Sachi Gahan left the team during the middle of its season in late March. Assistant Coach Rick Handt filled the post until the season's end, and guided the team to its strong performance and a fourth place finish at the Eastern Regional Tournament--just short of qualifying the team for the NCAA tournament...
Many years ago, Tamils and Sinhalese lived separately--and peacefully--in separate kingdoms on the island, the Tamils in the north and the Sinhalese in the south. Eventually the British came and colonized the island, and for administrative purposes, they united the island and called it Ceylon. When they left in 1948, they did not undo what they had done...
...second was colonization. The government sponsored groups of Sinhalese to settle in traditionally Tamil territories so that all regions of the country would have a Sinhalese majority. This left the Tamils little to no representation in parliament...
...trial or two in their time. They claimed that Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, a subsidiary of American Home Products, knew the dangers of fen-phen?s dangerous half, fenfluramine, long before the FDA yanked it off the market in May 1997 -- and hid their research from an unsuspecting public. Which left the defense spluttering that Ms. Lovett?s obesity carried its own risks; she knew what she was getting into. The jury didn?t buy it. "It?s not like cigarettes, where everyone supposedly knows they?re bad for you. This was a marketed drug whose dangers turned up later," says...