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...aisle in Washington to avoid settling into their newly dug niches. The bill passed last week is just a start, and we hope that Congress solidifies and deepens its commitment to higher education by reaching out to poorer students through an expansion of Pell grants, as proposed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.). We hope that Congress and the President have enough respect for our future to lay a solid, inclusive foundation for it today...
...said that the increase in nicotine yield over the period studied was statistically significant and not due to random variation. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Jun. 2000 that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not have the authority to regulate the tobacco industry, including nicotine levels. But Sen. Edward Kennedy ’54 (D-Mass.), incoming chairman of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, indicated last week that he plans to introduce legislation to put the industry under FDA regulation. “This study is an extraordinary public service by Harvard?...
...Another reports that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack H. Obama “takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim...
...Iraq, Hill Democrats have chosen the latter course. Sen. Edward Kennedy yesterday introduced a bill to block funding for deploying additional troops to Iraq. But Reid and the Democratic leadership prefer a non-binding, "sense-of-the-Senate" resolution opposing the troop increase that is designed to embarrass Bush by peeling off dissenting Republicans, without actually taking any action to block the move. Kennedy's proposal, leadership aides say, is a stalking horse designed in part to placate the base by attacking Bush while leaving Democrats who support the leadership's alternative safe from accusations they don't back...
...were busy releasing statements opposing the reinforcements and Democrats were still plotting how to bring the proposed increase to a vote in some way to allow members to express their unhappiness with the conduct of the war and the new U.S. strategy. "Escalation won't solve the problem," said Sen. Joseph Biden. "It will compound...