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Greatest Comeback For: November 20, Princeton was looking at its first victory in Cambridge since 1980. Princeton was looking at its first shutout over Harvard. With 10 minutes left in the game--and Princeton holding a 3-0 lead--the Tigers were looking at a long, gorgeous slash in the win column...
...Truong '89 said last week. That's a large part of the problem. PBH has been so intent on expanding that it has forgotten to find the money for its existing programs. In fact, a new program was launched on the same day PBH learned it would have to slash its budget. While the intentions are no doubt noble, the common sense is missing...
...Voting Rights Act and affirmative action. Indeed, after Jackson, Gore is the top choice of several major civil rights groups. Gore has also sponsored and supported legislation to increase federal aid to the homeless, helped create the Environmental Protection Agency Superfund, and has attacked the Administration's attempts to slash student aid for higher education...
...BANDONING its fruitless attempts to slash federal student financial aid programs, the Reagan Administration this month submitted its proposed education budget for Fiscal Year 1989. Calling for $21.2 billion in federal funding for education and for nearly $9 billion for financial aid programs, this year's budget request finally falls in line with spending levels supported by Congress...
What's to account for such a significant departure from the Administration's highly controversial policy of attempting to slash funds for financial aid whenever it could? Education Department officials admit that one factor is their desire to gain more influence on Capitol Hill. In previous years, when Education Secretary William J. Bennett sought massive cuts in student financial aid, Congress would simply ignore his requests and gave the Reagan Administration no say. As Loye W. Miller, Bennett's press secretary, admitted, "when you have a budget that is so unpopular that even key Republicans ignore it, then you simply...