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...wanted to help the poor, especially poor children, so they created a welfare system with perverse incentives that encouraged the birth of children into poverty. For another example, liberals want to open political office to all candidates, so they seek to limit the availability of indispensable campaign funds. The list could continue endlessly, but the point is the same: liberal policies are counterintuitive on their face, lacking logical and factual argument...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: Liberals Phone Home | 4/8/1998 | See Source »

...long-distance companies such as AT&T, MCI and Sprint pay the tax revenue directly to the federal government. Naturally unwilling to sacrifice profits, the long-distance companies passed the tax along to consumers. Fearing customer criticism for an apparent rate hike, the long-distance companies also planned to list the new tax as a line item on long-distance bills. The liberals responsible for the tax would not tolerate such disclosure, however, so the FCC and the vice president's office leaned on the companies to hide the tax in exchange for slower implementation of it. The result: consumers...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: Liberals Phone Home | 4/8/1998 | See Source »

Senior centerfielder Brian Ralph, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year, could return from his stint on the disabled list in time for weekend action. HARVARD, 8-3 at Hoy Field R H E Harvard 005 020 1 -- 8 141 Cornell...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Beats up on Big Red | 4/7/1998 | See Source »

...home page of Mohamad M. Al-Ississ '00. While most home pages talk about the student and his or her friends, this page has some real content to it. A list of not only the typical stuff (information about self, friends, classes, etc.) but information on the Arab world and a plethora of links to it. There are even links to Arabic radio and Real Audio sites...

Author: By Scott A. Penner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: THE 7 BEST Web Sites @ Harvard | 4/7/1998 | See Source »

...match the following synopses from the New York Times BestSellers list with the books they describe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Apr. 6, 1998 | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

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