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...advisory] is a request and not a mandate. We who deal with Asia may have occasion to visit those areas for University business,” Kuhn said...
...much rougher sledding on domestic issues. The Senate has handed him a series of embarrassing setbacks: stalling judicial nominee Miguel Estrada, blocking Alaskan oil drilling and last week cutting Bush's proposed tax cut in half. Some Democrats are already balking at another Bush initiative: in addition to a request for $75 billion to pay for the war, the Administration is drafting ambitious postwar plans that include providing health care to the entire Iraqi population. --By Karen Tumulty and Douglas Waller
...ports. We hope that he makes good on his pledge, but recent history provides many reasons to doubt. When the Coast Guard reported that secure ports would cost nearly $1 billion, Bush responded with rhetoric about the importance of the Coast Guard to national security, but he failed to request a single dollar in either his 2003 or his 2004 budgets. Congress overshot the President, appropriating $250 million, but Bush’s allies in Congress have repeatedly killed Democratic efforts to provide more funding...
...street vendor would ask. "America," I'd reply, "New York City." This would elicit expressions of outrage at the terrorist attacks, generous inquiries into the well-being of my friends and family and then perhaps a mention of the war in Afghanistan. From the impoverished or oppressed, a request often followed: please tell your President to send help. A faint belief that he might was detectable. A sense that he could, through benign gestures or a forceful imposition of will, was unmistakable...
First-year students will have keycard access to upperclass Houses from 8 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. starting today after a request by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 to house masters...