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Smith proposes getting rid of SAC, the Finance Committee and the CLC. In its place, the council would have a Grants Committee to handle financial duties, an All-House Committee in charge of managing relations with House Committees, an Administrative Relations Committee to deal with administrators and student-Faculty committees and a Student Groups Committee to serve as a liaison to campus organizations...
...comes to campaign finance reform, putting forward a new system in which a $1.7 billion public-private endowment would provide every candidate with his or her total campaign funding. The plan, which was met with lukewarm support from the patron saint of campaign finance, John McCain, would get rid of the direct ties between private contributors, federal officeholders and the two political parties. "The views of the donor will have absolutely no influence on the views of the recipient," said Gore Monday of the proposal, which would combine the less-than-$1,000 from private citizens and the big, "soft...
Kirkpatrick is the most animated of the group, even though he is 28 and has adopted a more mature, braid-free hairstyle. "I knew when Chris from Kid 'N Play said to get rid of the braids that it was time to change," he says. The band is pushing its new album, No Strings Attached, which is due to be released this week after a four-month delay caused by a $150 million lawsuit filed by Louis J. Pearlman--the Svengali who put together 'N Sync, the Backstreet Boys and LFO--after 'N Sync tried to leave him. They settled...
Sure it is. But it was also about time they got rid of the penalties, which restricted the earning power of older Americans by taking portions of their Social Security checks after they'd passed an annual earnings limit. The repeal was something of a no-brainer, says TIME financial writer Daniel Kadlec, both economically and politically. "This archaic regulation was particularly helpful in postwar periods, when GIs were coming home and looking for work," says Kadlec. "The government didn't want the jobs taken up by 'old' people." But now that the nation is rife with jobs, there...
Once you've had termites, as every homeowner knows, you're never quite sure you're entirely rid of them. Maybe the exterminator missed one, and the moment you close your eyes at night, it goes to work. For whatever reason, this thought crossed my mind last week as I drove to McLean, Va., to see what Pat Buchanan has been up to lately...