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...Term Limits, a citizens group which zealously advocates limiting service to 12 years in the U.S. Senate and 6 in the House; the group finds no other limits to tenure acceptable. Referenda with essentially the same details as the Arkansas measure have passed in Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada and South Dakota. It is not immediately clear whether the Court's refusal to overturn the Arkansas case will directly affect those states...
...Houston (fourth largest U.S. city) 1,650,000....Nebraska (37th largest U.S. state) 1,700,000....Graduate students in U.S. universities 1,500,000....Active U.S. military personnel...
Burned in their past attempts to reform Social Security, Republicans examined last week's advisory-council report with barbecue tongs and mitts. But Senator Bob Kerrey, a Democrat from Nebraska, immediately submitted legislation that would give workers more control over how their Social Security contributions are invested. Kerrey dismissed as "condescending" the notion that the average American can't be trusted to invest his own money. "Millions of middle-class Americans," he observed, "are investing successfully today," and their numbers are growing rapidly. Most of them are prudent enough to shift their savings gradually from the volatile stock market...
Warren Buffett, the Omaha, Nebraska, investor whom Gates demoted to being merely the second richest American, seems an unlikely person to be among his closest pals. A jovial, outgoing 66-year-old grandfather, Buffett only recently learned to use a computer. But as multibillionaires go, both are unpretentious, and they enjoy taking vacations together. Buffett's secretary apologetically explains that Buffett isn't giving interviews these days and at the moment is traveling, but she promises to pass along the request. Less than three hours later, Buffett calls to say he happens to be in the Time & Life Building with...
...5851/2 points. The Gators also finished on top in the USA Today/CNN poll with 58 first-place votes; Ohio State was second with four firsts. Rounding out the AP top five were Florida State (11-1), Arizona State (11-1), and Brigham Young (14-1). The second five: Nebraska (11-2), Penn State (11-2), Colorado (10-2), Tennessee (10-2) and North Carolina (10-2). Alabama was 11th, followed by Louisiana State, Virginia Tech, Miami, Northwestern, Washington, Kansas State, Iowa, Notre Dame, Michigan, Syracuse, Wyoming, Texas, Auburn and Army. With the rout, Florida avenged not only...