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...legislators who will eventually have to vote on it. A proposed set-aside of $488 million for private schools (which, if private-leaning evacuees seek out the kind of education they left behind, would be mostly Catholic) represents a historic federal bankrolling of those institutions and their overtly religious subset, and it drew quick fire from Democrats like Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. He pronounced himself "disappointed that "[Bush] has proposed ... relief using such a politically charged approach," while California Representative George Miller complained that "to launch a new private-school voucher program in the midst of a disaster response creates...
Provost Steven E. Hyman earned $371,710 in standard compensation, a 4.1 percent raise over last year’s salary, which is a subset of total compenstation. Including benefits, Hyman’s compensation dropped...
Ganz said the findings may prompt doctors to further explore a patient’s history. “It starts to push people in a direction to suggest that perhaps, for a certain subset of women, it’s worth asking about intimate partner violence,” he said...
...these new proposals suggest that Quad residents will have to suffer undue consequences for the sake of the entire student body’s extracurriculars. We hope that the College and the University, in their quest to plan the Allston expansion, does not overlook the needs of a large subset of its students. The College and HCL must be sure to be mindful that all Harvard students are guaranteed equal access to the libraries they deserve...
...That subset is comprised of celebrities who, like Lithgow, are absolutely legendary among “Theater People” and who had “That One Thing” that made them somewhat famous among the general population (in Lithgow’s case, his starring role on the late-’90s sitcom “3rd Rock from the Sun”), but who never quite attained the cultural ubiquity of a pretty face like, say, Ashton Kutcher...