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More experienced players, Co-Captain Daphne Onderdonk, and sophomores Kathy Shergallis and Paula Rand carried in wins for the remaining top half of the ladder. The first-seeded Onderdonk disposed of Bowdoin's Caitlin Hart...
...many teachers find group decision making threatening and onerous. Others argue that self-governance simply takes turf battles once fought at the district or state level and dumps them at the schoolhouse door. "All they have done is decentralize the politics," says Paul Hill, senior social scientist for the Rand Corp...
Those employers who openly defy the INS often find that it has no teeth. Since 1986, the INS has fined roughly 5,000 employers, but a study by the Rand Corp. and the Urban Institute shows that the average penalty was a mere $850 in an alien-saturated city like San Antonio. No employers anywhere in the U.S. have gone to jail for breaking that law. Even the smugglers have little to fear: a six-month suspended sentence is typical for a first offense, while some violators get only probation. "U.S. attorneys along the border plea- bargain these cases away...
...more than deletions in the military's wish list. Nuclear-arms control saves little money because it normally results in destruction of hardware that has already been paid for and often requires expensive verification methods. Reducing conventional forces could save money, but not much: defense-budget experts from the Rand Corp. to the Congressional Budget agree that a 50% reduction in U.S. troops in Europe would yield savings of only $6 billion to $7 billion a year. Real savings would not occur unless troops based in the U.S. are demobilized, a politically unappetizing prospect because of its impact on local...
...mass immigration of mugged liberals -- the neoconservatives. Communism acted on all these grouplets as a powerful unifying force. Whether you wanted an American Century or a minimal state, you could not be comfortable with Soviet aggrandizement. Lenin was anathema whether your philosophical polestar was Thomas Aquinas or Ayn Rand. Like an offensive guest at a lousy party, Communism drew together a lot of people who would otherwise have been standoffish...