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...course, this neglect of his responsibilities has become hardly surprising from George Bush. When he vetoes FMLA, it will be his twelfth veto. And he is not vetoing bills passed narrowly by the Democratic congressional majority. The FMLA is an example. This bill received vocal support in the House not only from Rep. Pat Schroeder (D-Co.) but also from Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) and Rep. Marge Roukema (R-N.J.), as well as more than 30 other Republicans. And in the Senate, where the bill passed unanimously, not only Sen. Ted Kennedy...
...Boston's most popular tourist attractions is its Freedom Trail, which passes by the historic houses and meeting places of some of the nation's Founding Fathers -- but no founding mothers. Now the city's educators are rectifying this neglect of women in U.S. history by establishing a Women's Heritage Trail...
...officials claim that it is better to maintain good relations with Iraq than to isolate it -- the same argument Bush has used to justify continued sales of high-tech equipment to China. But Iraq is far more unpredictable and threatening. Through benign neglect or conscious effort, Washington is helping to make it possible for Saddam Hussein to pursue his own vision of the power balance in the Middle East -- a vision distinctly counter to U.S. interests...
...irony, of course, is that none of the dilemmas that confront the U.S. today were unforeseeable a decade ago. The education crisis in the cities, the research lag of domestic industry in international competition, the savings and loans bankruptcies, Iran-Contra, even the public deficit, all stem from neglect...
...doubt the job of presidency was demanding, and Bok felt a strong obligation to project unchanged the institution that had made him its leader. Nonetheless, Bok's choice of priorities reflect a real insensitivity--and maybe even neglect--of the values for which he said Harvard should stand...