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These changes will also allow Congress to extend health care to millions more Americans and to begin to restore other social services that have been needlessly cut in the past four years. In order to both reign in the federal budget deficit and maintain any pretense of equality of opportunity in this country, we must maintain the system of progressive taxes and social services that has served us so well in years past...
This fall, the College released a brochure detailing the changes, which cap at 60 percent the number of members of the Class of 2005 who will receive honors. The change follows a Faculty vote two years ago to reign in the number of honors graduates, which exceeded 90 percent of the class...
When China invaded Tibet in 1950, it promised to bring modernity to the isolated feudal kingdom. Instead, it brought a reign of religious and cultural repression that drove the Tibetan government into exile, including its supreme religious and political leader. Discovered as the 14th incarnation of Tibetan Buddhism's high priest at age 2 and enthroned at 4, the Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has never returned. After 45 years of trying to preserve a nation without a land, the Dalai Lama is grappling with the future of Tibet in a startlingly pragmatic way?one that risks...
Director of Bands Thomas G. Everett stepped up on the stage in the front of the room and attempted to reign in the group of well over 100 people that had already arrived...
...leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime; in Phnom Penh. After almost six years of negotiations and delay, the 107 members present in Cambodia's 123-seat assembly voted unanimously to approve the proceedings, the focus of which will probably be on seven alleged former leaders from the brutal reign of Pol Pot. They are expected to be tried for atrocities committed from 1975 to 1979, when an estimated 2 million Cambodians were executed, starved or tortured to death...