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...likely that when right brain and left brain consult with each other and add up the damage, they find that the sum of human terrorism--even of evil--remains eerily constant...
...believe there has been more talk than action on such assistance. "This is not a continuation of Clinton's AIDS policy so much as it is his his gay-election policy," McAllister says. "Not that this isn't a perfectly legitimate request to make. But considering the small sum -- $65 million isn't much in his overall budget -- this is just a little election year pork barrel." Even if Clinton's plan is dismissed by majority Republicans, the President has nothing to lose: the budget likely won't be approved until after the November election. -- Jenifer Mattos
...believe there has been more talk than action on such assistance. "This is not a continuation of Clinton's AIDS policy so much as it is his his gay-election policy," McAllister says. "Not that this isn't a perfectly legitimate request to make. But considering the small sum -- $65 million isn't much in his overall budget -- this is just a little election year pork barrel." Even if Clinton's plan is dismissed by majority Republicans, the President has nothing to lose: the budget likely won't be approved until after the November election. -- Jenifer Mattos
...financial settlement has not been made known, but it is probably about $23 million. (Diana reportedly asked for $75 million, a sum not unheard of. Actress Amy Irving is said to have received close to $100 million from director Steven Spielberg in 1989; two years later, TV magnate Norman Lear paid an estimated $112 million for his freedom.) It is not clear whether the payment will be made in the lump sum Diana reportedly wanted. The Queen is notoriously tightfisted, so the settlement amount may represent principal held in trust from which Diana can draw interest. In that case...
Thus, when The Crimson staff envisions a "synergistic whole that is greater than the sum of its ethnic components," an interaction is proposed that ideally would occur among individuals with different perspectives and not among reified representatives of monolithic, separate and static entities of culture or ethnicity. There are "common human goals" towards which we can work, but our multiple and diverse aims should not be reduced to one common desire in the name of simplicity and at the expense of both rigorous intellectual engagement and of social justice...