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Community-wide decisions of this nature are unusual at Hillel, as most ritual practices occur in the individual prayer groups of its many denominations, including Orthodox, Conservative and Reform. Meals are among the only events involving rituals that the whole community takes part...
...questions will continue to be raised about our system of investor-based capitalism on which our economy depends," Fisher said. And closing that "disclosure gap" - not preventing the next corporate implosion, but making sure investors get the warning signs as promptly as possible - with accounting- and disclosure-rules reform is now Washington policymakers' most important...
...Phil Gramm (R-Tex.), saying that, “Immigrants should come to the U.S. with their sleeves rolled up, ready to work, not with their hands out, ready to go on welfare.” However, Gingrich, who as speaker of the House championed the Welfare Reform Act that included the stricter eligibility laws, said last week that, “In retrospect, it was wrong.” Bush’s plan would reverse the excessive 10-year requirement and restore the five-year minimum in place before the “Republican Revolution?...
More than 800,000 legal immigrants were kicked off the food stamp rolls following the Welfare Reform Act in 1996. It is distressing to think of how many may be in desperate need...
...moral of the story, campaign-finance-reform-wise, may well be that a political donation only gets you so far, and that the friends a campaign check makes you will be fair-weather ones indeed. When it's all over, we may find that this Administration, with a war to worry about and a honor-and-dignity-of-the-office mandate to maintain, did indeed act with particular rectitude in this case despite its Enron ties (or, again, perhaps because of them). Maybe we'll decide that Republicans, who hob-nob with rich business leaders all the time, are therefore...