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...room was transformed into a setting fit for Hollywood by a profusion of red velvet curtains with gold tassels, orange lighting and a three-dimensional representation of the Harvard shield. Two shows were taped consecutively and will appear on HBO on February...
...this point, getting involved in the politics of departmentalization is missing the point of where we are," Jung says. "It's a shield behind which the administrators can bypass the fact that there aren't permanent courses...
Enter the Democrats, carrying (they hope) a silver shield. The President says he can save the system with cuts of just $124 billion, though he too has yet to produce the numbers that get him there. House and Senate Democrats plan cuts of just $90 billion, the sum the Health Care Financing Administration, which oversees the system, says is needed to restore solvency. "We know that if the Republicans would only drop their trickle-down tax breaks, they simply wouldn't need to ravage Medicare," says House minority leader Dick Gephardt...
...objectives to include ousting Saddam from Kuwait. Thus, preparations began to assemble a force that would eventually total 541,000. During the course of the next few months, Powell would make thousands of decisions, ranging from helping to pick a name for the defensive part of the operation (Peninsula Shield and Crescent Shield were rejected in favor of Desert Shield) to getting around Riyadh's insistence that religious services for Jewish soldiers could not be held on Saudi soil (choppers picked up Jewish soldiers and brought them to ships stationed in the gulf to worship...
Astronauts retrieved the $25 million Wake Shield satellite today following its troubled 3-day flight. Plagued by various mechanical failures, the mission nonetheless was a partial success, NASA says, yielding four pieces of space-grown semiconductor film cultivated in the perfect vacuum of the satellite's wake. If further experimentation proves that film manufactured in space is superior to earthbound production, these materials may be a boon in the design of faster computers...