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...stories breed at least as much curiosity as fear, and if I had more faith in bold commandments issued in the voice of Charlton Heston, I could imagine having that porch talk once, or maybe twice, and being done with it. Then I'd move directly to the punishment phase: "Is that beer on your breath, my darling? No car keys. Ever!" Unfortunately, I doubt that it will go like this. If my daughter is anything like I was, the talk will have intermissions, pauses, breaks, and will need to be resumed and modified, according to circumstances, every few months...
...mess that the President is expected to sign this week is loaded with targeted tax breaks and maddening phase-ins and phase-outs--tax reductions that come and go like a spring afternoon. It contains some last-minute special-interest morsels, including one that may be a precursor to school vouchers. Most of the relief comes at the tail end of the 10-year plan--and the year after that, the whole thing disappears, restoring in 2011 the very same tax laws that were in force last April...
...believe that students have brought this phase of their campaign to a successful completion and we urge them to come out of Massachusetts Hall in a peaceable fashion, to permit normal life to return to the premises, and to allow the orderly work of the University to resume,” the letter read...
...first phase wasn’t so much interviewing, as it was looking at the broader framework and collecting ideas, but not trying to judge and evaluate people,” one committee member explained. “We were just in a position of trying to explore with many of the first-rate minds in the country about issues facing education,” another commented...
Complicated data entry processes have been a major source of complaints levied against the financial systems established during Project ADAPT’s first phase, with many administrators saying they are unhappy with the change...