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First, PUCC abhors the notion of directing U.C. grants to reward or punish ideology. We have proposed that a small sum of money--perhaps 2% of the council's semesterly budget--could be set aside to aid ad-hoc projects that engage in the defense of student interests. We understand those interests quite narrowly, as concerns that students hold and which affect a substantial portion of the College's population. Students working to maintain federal financial aid programs might qualify; those interested in, say, pro-choice advocacy, however urgent that issue may be, would have to look elsewhere. Every other...
Enter the Democrats, carrying (they hope) a silver shield. The President says he can save the system with cuts of just $124 billion, though he too has yet to produce the numbers that get him there. House and Senate Democrats plan cuts of just $90 billion, the sum the Health Care Financing Administration, which oversees the system, says is needed to restore solvency. "We know that if the Republicans would only drop their trickle-down tax breaks, they simply wouldn't need to ravage Medicare," says House minority leader Dick Gephardt...
...what of synergy, the idea that different but related businesses can be combined into a whole greater than the sum of the parts? Allen was a big booster in 1991, when he engineered a $7.4 billion hostile takeover of computer-making NCR. But while the marriage of computers and communications might seem a natural, AT&T could never make it work. For the first three quarters of this year, the computer business lost an estimated $500 million...
...announced that the singers are merely "having marital difficulties." She added that they are attempting to work things out and would appreciate some privacy, thereby guaranteeing that scads of tabloid photographers will now be following the couple's every move. A marriage on the rocks isn't the sum total of Brown's problems. He has been arrested twice this year for battery and also awaits a court date for allegedly kicking a security guard in West Hollywood...
...House Commerce Committee passed a Republican proposal that drastically revamps Medicaid, the health-care program for the poor, following the general G.O.P. prescription for welfare: no more federally guaranteed benefits; instead, lump-sum grants to the states to spend as they see fit. Senate Republicans unveiled a similar plan. But the G.O.P.'s decision to hold short and swift hearings on the $182 billion cost-savings plan--as well as on the even more controversial G.O.P. Medicare overhaul--prompted a full-scale rebellion by Democrats, who held alternative "hearings" on the lawn of the Capitol. The party leadership vowed...