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...sanctions on South Africa. A supporter of the defeated balanced-budget amendment, he is rare among his colleagues in proposing specific cuts that hurt a powerful constituency that happens to be his own: farmers. He is leading the charge against farm subsidies, proposing cuts of $15 billion--a 30% slice...
...addition to removing the nutrition programs from federal supervision, the proposed changes also sharply slice the total amount of money available by $860 million in fiscal 1996 and $7 billion over five years. Programs that provide food during the summer and to preschoolers in child care would be slashed 45% in fiscal 1996. "It's a complete retrenchment from the federal role to ensure that poor children in this country receive nutrition assistance," says Susan Steinmetz, director of the welfare-reform division at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, an advocacy group for the poor. "One couldn't imagine...
...stole a slice of pepperoni pizza last summer was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison under California's "three strikes and you're out" law. Jerry Dewayne Williams, 27, must serve 20 years before becoming eligible for parole, under a 1994 law that mandates long prison sentences for felons with prior convictions for a serious or violent felony. The good news: a California Corrections Department spokeswoman assures TIME Daily that pizza is occasionally served in the state's prison cafeterias...
...market sanctity, says ``every other industry'' would seek relief if Congress intervenes. ``This is just a private labor dispute,'' adds Senate majority leader Bob Dole, and ``we Republicans want to keep the government out of things, not get it into things.'' That sounds coherent, but there's a significant slice of hypocrisy here: Congress is largely responsible for the current horror. It long ago stacked the deck against the players by exempting baseball from the antitrust laws, protection no other U.S. business enjoys. If the G.O.P. leadership were serious about getting the government out of things, it would join...
...Beenie Weenie family. One of the main ingredients, which would have made it great had I gotten it for a present, was "partially de-fated, cooked, fatty pork tissue." I'd have just pealed back the lid and stuck a candle in it, then cut every body a slice...