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...legislation authorizing cuts in foreign aid and arms sales to countries responsible for fixing oil prices. Similar legislation is pending in the Senate, although the Clinton administration is urging caution. Blocking arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which spent some $10 billion on U.S. weapons systems in 1998, may be somewhat self-defeating. "The Saudis aren't buying F-16's in order to become self-sufficient in defense," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "They buy those things to give the U.S. an economic incentive to keep on supporting them, actually funneling some of their oil revenues back into...
...make vouchers available to parents in all underperforming schools. In this system, if a school averages subpar grades on state standardized tests in consecutive years, parents are offered $3,389 vouchers that can be used for private, parochial or other public schools. Despite signs that it's been somewhat successful (a mostly flattering story about the program ran on the front page of the New York Times on Tuesday), Judge Ralph Smith Jr. ruled in favor of voucher opponents, reasoning that it illegally funnels public funding into private schools. Both sides of the lawsuit have already speculated that the appeals...
...despite its distance from the House's main entrance and somewhat more "utilitarian" appearance, the Daniels tower forms a social center that its residents widely praise...
...Morris quietly added to their investments--nearly all built production plants with local partners, pouring more than half a billion dollars in direct foreign investment into Russia. In all cases, investors have developed a range of protection plans to help ensure that they prosper, even if that word is somewhat loosely defined...
...husband is suddenly dead, her seven children are in peril, she's in debt to a loan shark, and her best friend has breast cancer. But Agnes Browne, played by the director, remains essentially, somewhat improbably, undaunted. She cheerfully runs her fruit and vegetable stall in an outdoor Dublin market, allows herself to be flirted with by the local baker, yearns for tickets to a Tom Jones concert (the year is 1967). Not that we want for another lesson in the need to be chipper in adversity, but there are a reserve and a realism in Huston's work that...