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...Iraq have come tantalizingly close to something like their centuries-old dream: a state of their own. Sheltering behind a security guarantee from the U.S.-led coalition, cut off from the south by a military blockade, the long-suffering Kurds have taken control of a 15,000-sq.-mi. slice of the country...
This year Cambridge will spend $3000 more than the state average on every student enrolled in the city's schools. While the city has so far been able to maintain that level of spending despite cutbacks in local aid, the moribund economy and state-wide belt tightening may slice into the next school budget...
Containing costs requires higher taxes. But don't be fooled--we already pay health "taxes"--we just pay them to private insurers instead of the government. If the government were actively employed to hold down costs, we'd send a bigger slice of our paychecks to Washington, but we'd get back more in return by writing smaller checks--or no checks at all--to insurers...
...Burns boys are TV's hottest brother act. PBS's blockbuster The Civil War, which Ken directed and Ric helped write, was the TV event of 1990. Ric was responsible for this smaller slice of Americana, a wistful look at the glory days of America's greatest amusement park. The turn-of-the-century film clips were nostalgic yet startling, the documentary enthralling...
...Burns boys are TV's hottest brother act. PBS's blockbuster The Civil War, which Ken directed and Ric helped write, was the TV event of 1990. Ric was responsible for this smaller slice of Americana, a wistful look at the glory days of America's greatest amusement park. The turn-of-the-century film clips were nostalgic yet startling, the documentary enthralling...