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...logging by nearly two-thirds on federal lands -- and put habitats of the spotted owl off limits -- while providing more than $1 billion to retrain loggers and help tide over their communities. The timber industry attacked the compromise, saying it would devastate struggling businesses. And environmentalists complained it would permit cutting across large areas...
CLUH issued a report on ROTC in the fall of 1991 that proposed essentially the same course of action that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has endorsed, that Harvard should cease providing ROTC with financial support but permit students to continue to participate on an individual basis...
...White noted that Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali, accused ringleader of the bombmakers, had been quoted as boasting, "We can get you anytime!" (He uttered these words after the Feb. 26 bombing of the World Trade Center.) Said White: "Law enforcement's answer is, 'No, you cannot' . . . We will not permit the likes of these defendants to terrorize our city...
...Supreme Court lowered -- a bit -- the barrier between religion and public schools. A unanimous court, with White writing, said schools that permit outside organizations to meet on their property after class hours must extend the same right to religious groups. In a case involving the Afro-Cuban religion called Santeria, they also ruled that religious groups have a constitutional right to sacrifice animals in worship services. The Justices also unanimously backed the right of states to impose harsher sentences on assailants who commit hate crimes in which they choose their victims based on race, religion or other biases. "A physical...
Before it rolls over and plays dead, Family Dog has a couple of lessons to impart. First, TV cartoons (especially The Simpsons) are largely dialogue- driven; a more stylized, visual cartoon like Family Dog is probably doomed without the sort of animation care that TV budgets don't permit. Second, big- name filmmakers venturing into TV need to do more than simply lend their big names. Burton and Spielberg, it seems, did little for Family Dog except use their clout to get it on the air. One expected more...