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...dean attributed the stunning rise largely to the decisions of Princeton and Yale Universities to scrap their early action programs in favor of an early decision program beginning this year...
...power to tax is the power to destroy," said Forbes. "The current tax system is legalized corruption. If you have the power in Washington D.C. you can get the tax break you want. Take this system and scrap it, kill it, and put a stake through its heart. Bury it and hope it never rises again...
...MORNING OF NOV. 1, AND "NEWTSIE," as Dole affectionately refers to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has thrown a fit. Gingrich and Dole are only hours away from their first serious sit-down with Bill Clinton to discuss the Republican budget. But Gingrich is threatening to scrap the long-awaited session. The morning's New York Times has quoted White House spokesman Mike McCurry describing the planned session as an "encouraging" concession on the part of the Republican leadership. "That's enough," Gingrich cries. "I'm not going down there [to the White House...
...sold. Aghast that it was valued at a mere $300 to $500, she and her husband went to the auction and bought it back--not before fighting off others to the tune of $1,400. "We didn't want to see it used as a doorstop or sold as scrap," she said...
...including a long-range radio transmitter or receiver. (The diesel engine died four hours into the voyage, so the vessel also lacked electric power, except a little generated by solar panels, and thus had no functioning refrigerator or electric bilge pump.) A tiny shortwave radio occasionally brought in a scrap of intelligence. Somebody had reached the quarter-finals at the U.S. Open. An Australian-rules football team had lost...