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The University of California Regents, stung by a 20% cutback in state support due to the state budget crisis, are planning to increase student fees another 32%. The U.C. system must chop $637 million out of its budget this year following the agreement between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the legislature...
Clay County, says Martin Hatfield, a former federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Kentucky, is "certainly an area that's been given a lot of attention from the federal authorities over the past several years. Who knows what kinds of emotions that has stirred up?" In such areas, Cross...
Still, the first confrontation between anarchists and cops was over quickly. The police took less than half an hour to block the anarchists' way downtown, stopping them on the wide expanse of Liberty Avenue and forcing them to reroute. "I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly," came the...
Snowe's most provocative contribution to the health-care debate has been her proposal for a trigger that would activate a Medicare-like, government-run public option to provide affordable coverage if private insurance companies failed to. "It would be a safety net, a fallback mechanism," she says, arguing that...
The reaction among the Swiss public to Gaddafi's idea of splitting up the country has been a mix of outrage and incredulity. "Even though Gaddafi is a leader of a country and the current head of the African Union, he loses credibility when he comes up with outrageous comments...