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...with delays and cost overruns, Defense Secretary Cheney pulls the plug on the Avenger program, signaling an end of the buddy-buddy deals of the Reagan...
...before in front of the White House, and the Women's Peace Group will start a fast. On Jan. 19 and 26, rallies and marches are planned for the streets of the capital. Says Massachusetts activist Tekla Lewin: "George Bush and his advisers are doing everything they can to plug their ears. This will be a way to get heard." The sound is still far from deafening -- but it does keep growing louder...
...trying to plug the holes on the Mexican border with radar balloons, aircraft equipped with infrared sensors and ground-implanted motion sensors. But vast stretches of badlands are not constantly under guard. The traffickers, in turn, have proved endlessly inventive. On May 17, Customs agents discovered a 250-ft.-long, 5-ft.-wide concrete-and-steel reinforced tunnel that ran 35 ft. under the border, between a construction-supply warehouse in Douglas, Ariz., and a house in Agua Prieta, Mexico. Agents figure virtually all of Arizona's cocaine supply moved for a time via the passage...
...Robert Levine, CEO and executive partner of the Philadelphia-based accounting firm, announced that gallons of red ink added up to a black day and that the company was filing for Chapter 11 protection from its hordes of creditors. Ultimately, it was neither creditors nor clients who pulled the plug on the failing firm; it was Laventhol's partners themselves. Confronted by an $85 million bank debt and enormous litigation costs, the partners decided they could not afford to save the firm. "My management team and I did all we could to avert this tragedy," moaned Levine, "but the clock...
This episode should repulse us all--including the mainstream conservative journalists and foundation directors who have funded the Review to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars each year. These funders should pull the financial plug on a group that has been an embarassment both to Dartmouth and the conservative values it purports to uphold...