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Even in the two important votes that took place in Congress last week, in which Republicans could claim at least partial victories, the political gain went to the other side. Seven months after the fiscal year began, Congress finally passed a 1996 budget that included $23 billion in G.O.P. cuts. Legal services to the poor, subsidized public housing and the National Endowment for the Arts took sharp hits. Republicans promised to halt the growth of government spending, and they...
Student leaders were elated over the change, with some taking partial credit...
...Clinton Administration, which would prefer that the coming debate be stillborn, is readying a mushy response defending the current system's "dependability." Yet the possibility of partial privatization won't be ruled out peremptorily. (Clinton gets money from Wall Street...
...school. One of the strengths of the case, says Terral Smith, the Austin lawyer who filed it, is that Hopwood is "a real victim, the sort of person affirmative action should help." According to Smith, Hopwood, who comes from a blue-collar family, was offered a couple of partial scholarships--including one to Princeton--but still could not afford to go. Instead she attended California State University, married a serviceman, worked as an accountant and was raising a disabled child when she applied to the University of Texas law school at age 29. Her LSAT scores were good enough...
...Senate and House will meet in conference this week to work out the details on how to provide more than $160 billion to fund the nine Cabinet Departments and numerous other federal agencies. The long-awaited compromise would bring to an end an ongoing crisis that has triggered two partial government shutdowns and has required 11 stopgap spending measures since last fall...