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...Democrats were never able to draw much blood over the $1.35 trillion tax cut that Congress enacted last year. Their cries that government revenues were shrinking and huge tax cuts would drain the Social Security and Medicare surpluses were only beginning to be heard by voters when the terrorists struck. After 9/11, Americans accepted that the country had to move to a wartime footing and that budget deficits would have to return to fight both Osama bin Laden and the recession. Republican strategists on Capitol Hill tell me their polls still show that the deficits Bush is proposing the next...
Nearly all of us now know--or think we know--how the dinosaurs perished: some 65 million years ago, a giant asteroid or comet struck the earth, spewing huge amounts of dust and debris into the air. That dust, according to a widely accepted theory first proposed by Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez, was circulated by the winds and enshrouded the earth for months, blocking sunlight and causing temperatures to plummet. As a result, the dinosaurs, and 70% of all other terrestrial species, were wiped...
...think the women of Afghanistan absolutely know what the future of that country should be. The idea that somehow we are shoving Western feminism on Afghan women--I cannot tell you how angry it makes me. I was struck by how much clarity the women have, because they've thought about it for so long. They've kept the country alive; let's face it. Why don't we ever recognize that...
Harvard actually struck first on Saturday, courtesy of fifth-year senior defenseman Liam McCarthy’s first career goal...
Although an earlier proposal on reducing Core requirements explored counting freshman seminars for actual Core credit, that plan had been struck down by Faculty members who said it would limit the variety of seminar offerings by making seminar leaders feel they had to fit their courses into the Core’s pre-defined subject areas...