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...than welfare. It is more saddening that this move would come at the same time that other money is being spent for wealthier, more powerful constituencies: Senate majority leader Trent Lott is currently attempting to secure $500 million for an extra aircraft carrier to be built in his home state of Mississippi, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) has just passed an amendment to save the oil industry $66 million a year in royalties owed to the public...
...collection is officially named the "George and Abby O'Neill Archives of the Communist Party and Soviet State" after the O'Neill family, who donated the necessary money for the purchase. Goldman said that George O'Neill '50 of New York has always been fascinated by documents from the Cold...
Still, Goldman said the O'Neill collection will be even more valuable than the Smolensk collection, as it contains nearly 200 times more information and offers information on the entire Soviet state, not just the city of Smolensk...
...True, Bush did apply the classic GOP formula to education reform: States and localities, not the federal government, should decide how and where to spend Washington?s education dollars. But here?s the rub that may lead the Republicans back to the center of this issue ?- and rub some of them the wrong way: The states don?t get to run off without a chaperone. The proposal is filled with ways to let states use federal education dollars more freely, including passing them along to parents in the form of vouchers for private or charter schools. But in exchange, Bush...
...time of the Dahran attack, President Clinton vowed that any country whose government was found to have been involved would face retaliation. "But," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott Macleod, "the attack occurred before the election of President Khatami, who has clearly demonstrated a commitment to end state terrorism and normalize Iran?s relations with the rest of the world. Given Washington?s desire to strengthen his reformist government against its hard-line opponents, the U.S. would be unlikely to take military action against Iran unless there were fresh acts of terrorism." Better that the unfettered and somewhat crude...