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Bush will work to ensure that low-income families have the same possibilities and opportunities for choosing their child's educational plan that rich families currently enjoy. Under the Bush plan, schools that do not improve upon poor performance will lose a significant portion of their federal funding. This money will be given in the form of a voucher to the parents of children in these failing schools. This offers low-income families the resources to choose a better education for their child...
...substantial portion of the University's newfound wealth should be directed toward student groups and, ultimately, toward the construction of a student center. Building space has long been a contentious issue on campus--from providing the faculty with office space to securing performance stages for student dramatic productions--but the University has the opportunity to construct a center for students that would foster community among undergraduates. Student groups are the spirit of undergraduate life on campus, and the University should commit itself to establishing a centrally-located community for our activities. Even if construction is not a viable option because...
...Crimson should have no trouble riding that confidence into the next crucial portion of its division schedule. The team will host B.C. and MIT on Wednesday before taking on No. 20 Iona, Brown, Lehman and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy next weekend...
...Dick Cheney are the oil-industry candidates, the men with Texas crude flowing through their veins. But in reality it is the Democrats who have the clout to meddle in the petroleum market. Last Thursday, Gore proposed that the U.S. control rising oil prices by tapping a small portion of the national Strategic Petroleum Reserve. A day later the Clinton Administration announced that it was releasing 30 million of the 570 million bbl. now stockpiled in salt caves along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana. The idea, said Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, is to correct extreme shortages...
...size cassettes in metal jackets--containing downloaded weapons codes. Computer-forensics experts concluded that Lee had used his classified computer in the X Division, where nuclear warheads are designed and assessed, to download voluminous mathematical descriptions of the characteristics and performance of various thermonuclear warheads to an unsecure portion of the computer-storage system. Prosecutors say he stored the data in a subdirectory protected only by a password that consisted of his initials. Then, the evidence showed, he went to another division at Los Alamos and borrowed a colleague's computer that came with a device for making backup tapes...