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Meanwhile, as the specter of incessant tests from kindergarten to law school haunts those still in diapers, the Democratic candidates seem to have their heads firmly stuck in the sand. The issue perhaps most near and dear to the hearts of students nationwide is being discussed on only one side of the fence. Could it be that the Republicans are leading the way in education these days? With Texas Governor George W. Bush presiding over one of the greatest turnarounds in state education history and the Republicans in the Senate granting $300 million more for education in the budget than...
...13TH MONTH Key supporter: PENNSYLVANIA SENATOR ARLEN SPECTER How it works: By making the fiscal year longer than a calendar year, Congress can spend up to $16 billion this year and not count it until 2001. Small hitch: Kudos for Caesar-style creativity, but what happens next year, when the bills come...
...that General Prabowo Subianto, a close ally of the former dictator Suharto and a rival to current military leader General Wiranto, wields considerable influence among officers on the island. That, together with rising nationalist sentiment against international intervention and the Indonesian government that authorized it - as well as the specter of war crimes tribunals shadowing those officers who helped organize the militias' killing spree ? could leave the peacekeeping force marching straight into a shooting...
...game of fiscal chicken with Bill Clinton, Republican Senate leaders are embracing a time-warping plan to make this year?s budgetary ends meet: They?re adding a 13th month to the upcoming fiscal year. "We all know we engage in a lot of smoke and mirrors," Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) told the Washington Post on Monday. "But we have to fund education, NIH, worker safety and other programs. It's a question of how we do it." The GOP is desperate not to be the ones to bust those 1997 spending caps (the ones on which all those...
...Which is not to say anyone besides accountants will notice. The trick is simply to spend $12 billion or so in a phantom month between fiscal 2000 (the year currently being budgeted) and fiscal 2001. That, folks like Specter are hoping, will be enough to cover a few more necessaries without violating the letter of the 1997 agreement. The spirit of that deal lies in tatters, of course; creative lawmakers have already have exempted nearly $28 billion in proposed spending from the caps ? largely through "emergency" spending ? even with only a 12-month year. That might be too expedient, even...