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...concerns are partly practical. As excited as they are to see the first Jew on a national ticket, they worry that Lieberman will arouse religious fears - and hatred of Jews - and thus be a sort of slash-and-burn pioneer, leaving a poisoned atmosphere for those who follow him. They're also partly principle. With the church-and-state crowd often dismissed these days along with cultural liberals as anti-morality and anti-family, the ADL (with its practiced eye for demagogy) may be trying to fill the void...
...Conservationists make these points: It would be impossible in any case to thin out millions of acres of rugged forest. Not enough money or manpower. Logging creates its own fire hazards - enormous piles of slash, for example. Forest fires are not nearly as devastating in the long term as they seem at the fiery moment. The big 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park, hyped by media pictures and ineffectually fought with the largest fire-fighting army in history, did not go out until heavy snow and rain came in mid-September. The burned areas are regenerating nicely, as nature intended...
...Clinton has asked Congress for about $23 billion in fiscal year 2001 for foreign aid and for running the State Department - which is about the same as what will be spent this year. But the appropriations bills now making their way through the House and Senate would slash that request by about $2 billion...
...Quincy resident reported to CPD that while at Sennott Park, he was involved in an argument with a homeless man who slapped him in the face and proceeded to slash at him with a knife...
...College Harry R. Lewis '68--who seems to be perpetually logged in to his multiple e-mail accounts--has often said that he will respond to any message sent to him by students. But when 877 first-years sign a petition asking their dean to reconsider his decision to slash the size of blocking groups, Lewis dismisses their concerns, saying that his Committee on House Life--a collection of College administrators, House masters and deferential, resume-padding representatives from the Undergraduate Council--was more than adequately equipped to make a decision that would affect the Class of 2003, a constituency...