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...name Admiral Jeremy ("Mike") Boorda, a surface-warfare officer, as CNO. Unlike all 24 CNOs who came before, Boorda, a high school dropout, never attended the Naval Academy. As the Navy personnel chief from 1988 to 1991, he drafted a plan that allowed the Navy, unlike other services, to shrink dramatically without firing personnel. But an Administration official said Saturday that Clinton might prefer to keep Boorda in his sensitive Naples post, where he has been planning the possible NATO bombing campaign against the Serbs. If so, the next CNO is likely to be Admiral Charles Larson, the Pentagon...
...would rise a modest 2.3% above those of 1994. Under Reagan and Bush, by contrast, federal spending jumped an average of 6.3% a year. Moreover, the budget would cut government spending to 21.6% of the country's gross domestic product, the lowest level since 1979. And the deficit would shrink to just 2.1% of GDP by 1999, down from 4% when Clinton took office...
...report, which was made public yesterday, said the University's attempts to review costs not related to compensation and financial aid in the search for savings are meeting with success. In 1993, Harvard saw its deficit shrink to $21 million from last year's $37 million shortfall...
...Bobbitt-like fellows who regard the penis as a portable battering ram. So the ripple of glee that passed through the female population when Lorena Bobbitt struck back shows that feminist intellectualdom has it wrong. In polls, American women are strongly supportive of feminist issues, and if they nonetheless shrink from the F word itself, this is not because they think it means man-hating militants from hell. On the contrary, the problem with "feminism" may be that it has come to sound just too damn dainty...
...went to Harvard Medical School and swiftly became disillusioned. "I hated it, he says. "I'd go to the shrink, and he'd tell me that everybody hated it. Why? Well, you went through it to get your license. There was nothing to discuss. You went through the hazing to join the fraternity -- it was male-dominated in those days...