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Congress passed forfeiture laws in the hopes of reducing drug trafficking, but law-enforcement agents seem to be more interested in making money. Federal agencies and local police keep a substantial portion of the forfeited cash and revenues obtained from the sale of confiscated properties; this creates a strong incentive to apply forfeiture laws loosely...
...Conservatives will be Jean Chretien and the members of the Liberal Party, who skyrocketed from 79 seats to 178. But the story does not end where a contest comparable to the annual Democrat-Republican face-off would. The Liberals were not the only party to pick up a large portion of the House; the right-wing Reform Party and Bloc Quebecois each grabbed about one-sixth of the seats...
Some female leaders on campus think that RUS should try harder to speak for a larger portion of female students at the College. Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club President Karen E. Boyle '94, who says she often disagrees with RUS' stances, says RUS should conduct polls of female students so that it can more accurately represent its members...
...buildings--located in Crystal City, Va., just a short drive from the nation's capital--constitute a sizable portion of Harvard's roughly $6 billion endowment, and make up nearly 50 percent of the endowment's real estate portfolio. As of June 30, 1992, the last date for which information is available, that portfolio was worth about $263 million...
Last year Mansfield revealed his inanity (and his penchant for publicity) with his comments about Women's Studies and Black students. It's no surprise, then, that he's once again expressing contempt for a sizeable portion of the student body and faculty. This time, though, he's chosen not to limit the scope of his remarks to this campus; Mansfield voiced these sentiments as a trial witness in defense of Colorado's Amendment Two, which prevents the cities of that state from enacting statutes to protect the civil rights of homosexuals...