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...Rebecca Stump ’04 can sympathize. “There is still a $24,000 discrepancy between what Harvard thinks I can pay and what my family actually can.” As a result of this discrepancy, Stump spends any extra time she has at Harvard working instead of pursuing her passion for singing. “In high school all I did was sing,” she says. But balancing eight to 12 hours of work at Widener library each week, a board position in a community service organization, and a reading-intensive Social Studies...
...event the teetering-on-the-edge travel industry had been anticipating for weeks: George W. Bush's plan to make air travel safer. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta flew United into Chicago?s O?Hare airport to join Bush for a stump speech that had one stated goal: to get America flying again...
...into tracking back, ever so slightly, from his promises of speedy, painful reform. That pledge he made in July to limit government borrowing this year to $8.25 billion? Now he says that's just a target, not written in stone. Those big-spending supplementary budgets he derided in his stump speeches? Koizumi now thinks one will be necessary this year, after all. The three-year deadline for cleaning up banks' bad loans? Hmm, that might actually take longer. This doesn't add up to a major policy retreat, but Koizumi's waffling amid looming economic catastrophe raises some critical questions...
Maybe all the Republicans needed during those endlessly frustrating Clinton budget fights was a good economic slump. The slowdown is not only "real," as George W. Bush needlessly pointed out in a campaign-style stump speech from Harry Truman?s hometown Tuesday, it?s given the White House the perfect vehicle to sell Americans on the articles of the Republican fiscal faith...
...bone, three nerves, one artery, three veins and three muscle groups had to be reattached if Jessie was to recover with some semblance of normal use of his arm. While De Campos prepared the stump, Rogers marked the corresponding veins, arteries and nerves with sutures on the severed arm. First, De Campos shortened the arm even more, taking away about an inch of bone so that the stump would hold a plate to keep the limb in place. She clamped the bones together--two screws in the stump, two at the overlap and two more...