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...Defense Secretary appears to have a double standard when it comes to Pentagon policy on military families. Dick Cheney opposes a proposed law that would excuse one parent from the front lines in the event married soldiers with children are both called to serve. Cheney's position prompted the sponsor of the Military Orphans Prevention bill to remind him about his own history as a noncombatant. California Congresswoman Barbara Boxer points out that Cheney received a deferment from the Vietnam draft in 1966 because his wife Lynne was pregnant. "You . . . felt that your wife and soon-to-be-born child...
Assad's regime is also known to be the world's principal sponsor of terrorism. Attacks that have been linked to Syrian groups include the 1980 killing of the Jordanian prime minister, the 1982 assasination of President Gemayel of Lebanon, the 1983 attacks on the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, the 1986 attempt to blow up an E1 A1 airliner in London and the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland...
Though Cambridge and other non-profit groups sponsor dozens of programs designed to aid the elderly, the city still lacks a central place where seniors can get information about which programs would best suit their needs. Many, frustrated or intimidated by their confusing searches for aid, choose instead to go without help and fend for themselves...
According to the bill's author, Adam D. Taxin '93, the council plans to sponsor two study breaks for such students--commonly called "floaters...
Priscilla A. Schaffer, a Harvard professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, also sees high indirect cost rates as a concern. Although NIH--the Medical School's largest federal grant sponsor--may be indirect-cost blind, Schaffer worries that an economic downturn may move the agency to change that policy...