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Many speakers at the meeting said they objected to the Trust funding individuals, saying they prefer to have the funds affect as many undergraduates as possible...
...raids, concentrating their fire exclusively on Israeli troops occupying Lebanese territory - but they're plainly in no hurry to relieve the mounting domestic political pressure on Barak to withdraw from Lebanon. The Israeli prime minister set himself a July deadline for withdrawing his forces, unilaterally if necessary. Barak would prefer, of course, to have negotiated security guarantees with Syria to cover that retreat. Despite ratcheting up the pressure, though, Damascus doesn't want a unilateral Israeli withdrawal. "If Israel leaves Lebanon before there's a comprehensive peace deal with Syria," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott McLeod, "the Syrians...
Schleier-Smith said he didn't think it would be difficult for students to moderate their use of Harvard resources for business activities. According to Schleier-Smith, student-entrepreneurs usually prefer to keep business use of their dorm rooms to a minimum anyway...
When the first installment of Don Barlett and Jim Steele's examination of corporate welfare appeared in November 1998, TIME was proud to present investigative journalism at its finest--reporting that is as much explanation as it is sensation and that exposes what those in power probably would prefer ordinary folks not see. The series demonstrated why the Washington Journalism Review called Barlett and Steele "almost certainly the best team in the history of investigative reporting." Their four-part "Corporate Welfare" series earned the pair eight major journalism prizes, including the 1999 National Magazine Award for Public Interest. And last...
OLYMPIC GOLD A Harris Interactive poll reveals that U.S children ages 6 to 17 prefer the Olympic Games to any other major sporting event. More kids say they like the Olympics than the Super Bowl, the World Series, the soccer World Cup and even the youth-oriented X Games. Because a Summer or Winter Olympics comes only once every two years, the pollsters believe that enthusiasm for watching the Games is passed down as a family activity by parents or older siblings...