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State senators introduced a bill to the legislature Monday which would place a moratorium on the state's two-year-old school choice system...
...Veterans of the war and of the antiwar movement may never entirely make peace with each other. In the year 2000, when they gather at conferences marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, they will still be arguing over Khe Sanh and Kent State, Tet and the Moratorium, just as old Union and Confederate soldiers relived and refought Antietam and Gettysburg well into this century, until they too had passed into history. That is the real bottom line on Vietnam: there is no statute of limitations. The war imposed a life sentence on an entire generation...
...proliferation has so alarmed the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education that it has declared a moratorium on certifying new programs until next June. "Specialization is very appropriate; we need it because of the fast pace of medical research," says Dr. Carlos Martini, vice president of education for the A.M.A. and author of the J.A.M.A. report. "But when everybody becomes specialized, then it's a problem. Someday, if we're not careful, we'll have people who want to specialize in the left elbow and not the right...
...party would lean at least a little toward the "big tent" concept its late chairman, Lee Atwater, had formulated. But the platform drafters not only flattened the pro-choice faction; they also took a hard line against gay rights, gave short shrift to environmentalists and called for an indefinite moratorium on new business regulation. Donald Devine, one of the many right-wing activists monitoring the platform, labeled this collection of planks "as conservative, or more so, than any since...
...would trade property -- land, factories, warehouses, oil and mining concessions -- to Western investors, government and private, that would in turn cancel Moscow's debts to them. The seven offered what German Chancellor Helmut Kohl called an extended breathing space. No details, but probably Russia can wangle a two-year moratorium during which it pays only interest on its loans...