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...smart? "Hardly," says Joe Biden, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman no one has ever accused of being soft on crime. "Three strikes is the wacko" product of other Senators eager to outdo their colleagues on the toughness scale...
THERE IS NOTHING NEW ABOUT THE WHITE HOUSE and Congress using the budget as the focus for a game of Can You Top This? But a Democratic Congress striving to outdo a Democratic President in cutting spending and the federal deficit? Strange as it sounds, that's what is happening as Congress begins to put the first real numbers on federal spending and revenues. The House budget committee voted to cut spending over the next five years by $63 billion more than Bill Clinton had proposed. The Senate budget committee promptly topped that, voting not only for deeper spending cuts...
Rudenstine granted degrees in the final portion of the morning ceremony, delivering a traditional speech as graduating classes rose in turn. Enthusiastic graduates from the 10 schools waged a creative battle of sorts, each trying to outdo the last with a final display of class pride...
Many bands fall into the trap of trying to outdo themselves and end up sounding contrived, but not Def Leppard. Adrenalize is a wholly original album that has some of Def Leppard's best trademarks yet is not a direct copy of their previous successes...
...Africa, for example, might have six agencies vying for control. "We've witnessed some appalling turf wars," says Fortier. To avert future battles, he urges Boutros-Ghali to "commandeer the system and make sure that the barons are not always getting in each other's way and trying to outdo sister agencies." Last month the General Assembly took a first step to control duplication and infighting among humanitarian aid programs by calling for the appointment of a high-level coordinator with the power to overrule agency heads...