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Tom Coburn, a Republican Senator from Oklahoma, has a problem with the $106 billion bill the Senate is working on that would help pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, preparation in case of a breakout of avian flu, rebuilding of the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina - and many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senator Fighting Pork | 5/2/2006 | See Source »

The mild-mannered Cochran seemed a bit frustrated with Coburn's tactics last week, and that's not unusual. Coburn's habit of going down to the Senate floor and ridiculing projects his colleagues want funding for is "annoying" to some of them, says Mel Martinez, a Republican from Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senator Fighting Pork | 5/2/2006 | See Source »

What’s at issue here is more than the UC’s inefficiency; the council’s funding policy is incoherent and inconsistent. The status quo leaves student leaders and UC members alike irritated and confused, and leaves events unfunded for apparently arbitrary reasons. The most...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Points of Disorder | 4/28/2006 | See Source »

The incoming freshmen who flooded the campus this past weekend will face a markedly new concentration structure, as theirs will be the first class to declare a concentration in the middle of their sophomore year. While we endorse many of the reforms suggested by the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Delaying Indecision | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov This federal government site, a work in progress, uses patient data from more than 4,000 hospitals to assess how often they provide the recommended treatment for certain conditions. For example, you can check the three hospitals you are considering having surgery at to see which is accredited by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choosing a Doctor and a Hospital | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

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