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Hughes seems to think the arts and humanities should be exempt from the same vigorous scrutiny that virtually every other part of the federal budget is undergoing. When we have a national debt of nearly $5 trillion, it is the height of arrogance to believe that anyone's pet programs should be sacred cows. This view, by the way, is not the partisan attack Hughes would have readers believe. Even the Progressive Policy Institute, an arm of the Democratic Leadership Council, stated in its 1993 Mandate for Change that it opposed federal funding for the arts and humanities...
...1970s, has been rising sharply since 1979. No one knows for sure what is behind the increase, but a prime suspect is the greater amount of time people spend in tightly sealed, air-conditioned workplaces and homes, where they are exposed to such indoor irritants as dust mites and pet dander...
...reminds the fervent budget cutters that back in 1985 he engineered the only across-the-board cut of federal programs (including a freeze on Social Security) that the Senate has ever passed-only to be undercut by Ronald Reagan. Last week Dole tried to push through one of his pet projects: easing regulations on business, a measure that is designed to appeal to conservative hard-liners. But when it comes to meat inspections and water-quality standards, his party is on the wrong side in the polls, and Democrats had the votes to force Dole into setting the bill aside...
...some healthy-looking parks department employees. A worker who knew his way around gators quickly subdued it (ah, New York), assisted by a park ranger with a very big rubber band, which she promptly clamped over the gator's snout. City officials said it must have been a pet, since it was rather pale.Mladic photograph by Sava RadovanovicClinton photograph by Diana Walker for TIMEWu photograph by BBCGingrich photograph by Cynthia Johnson for TIMEMice photograph by John Sholtis Previous TIME Daily Campaign...
THOUGH THE ATF IS THE PET DEMON OF THE MILITANT right, it is the FBI that handled the violent conclusions of two infamous confrontations: the 1992 standoff at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the 1993 siege in Waco, Texas. This week two House subcommittees will open hearings into the Waco assault; in the fall, hearings will delve into the FBI "shoot-on-sight" orders that some critics believe were responsible for the Idaho death of Vicki Weaver, the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver...