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AMERICORPS Mixing business with pleasure, Senate kills Clinton's pet program...
...backed candidates are promoting their own pet projects, as well. Duehay said he will fight to maintain the city-wide Cambridge Hospital network, to create a preservationist Harvard Square Historic Business District and to monitor cleanup of a chemical pollution site threatening the Cambridge water supply...
...Senate will not be enough. Simply ignoring child-care needs, as the Republican bill did initially, seems punitive and cruel, especially when the jobs are dead-end and low wage. At the Fairfax County, Virginia, welfare office, the few positions listed on the bulletin board last week ranged from pet grooming to newspaper delivery (report at 4 a.m., not a great time to get a baby sitter) to child care, all at minimum wage. Only when you're looking after other people's children--and leaving your infant in a group day-care center--does mothering qualify as work...
Some fellow Senators, however, wonder whether Roth, 74, is up to the Finance Committee job. He has always been strong on big ideas but weak on the details. Roth goes nowhere without an aide conversant in the substance of even his pet issues. When visitors come to his office, he has demonstrated more interest in showing them the framed photos of his beloved Saint Bernards than in twisting arms and cutting deals. But Republicans must deliver on their promise to bring the budget into balance or face an even angrier electorate. And the Finance panel is where much of that...
...return for keeping the tapes out of court, that he used the word nigger on three occasions in the past 10 years. And at worst, depending on what portions of the tapes, if any, Ito permits the jury to hear, Fuhrman has breathed life into the defense's pet theory: that Simpson is an innocent victim of a racist police conspiracy. Former Los Angeles district attorney Ira Reiner explains: "It is not that the tapes should influence the case by any objective standard. The issue is subjective importance. They will overwhelm the jury. If those tapes come in-and they...