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Student supporters of Republican presidential hopefuls George W. Bush and John S. McCain debated their candidate's proposals for the budget surplus, Social Security, campaign finance reform and other salient issues last night in Harvard Law School's (HLS) Langdell Hall...
...against these ideas--if we approach them analytically in terms of the deployment of our resources," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message. "I haven't heard anyone say lately that the undergraduate college which is our core business has a surplus of faculty time unused by our undergraduates, so I am very cautious about exciting ideas for other ways our faculty could be spending their time...
...report's author, Matthew G. Bunn, the Kennedy School's assistant director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, said surplus stores of plutonium and highly enriched uranium (HEU) have posing an increased threat to U.S. security. Both plutonium and HEU can be used to make nuclear bombs...
...Michigan, McCain stressed his plan to devote a majority of the projected federal budget surplus to shoring up the Social Security trust fund. This played well among the state's blue-collar workers, exit polls showed...
...predictable tale of fruitless fights for respect by third parties. Reform earned an astonishing 19% of the vote in the 1992 presidential race. But after founder ROSS PEROT's far worse finish in the 1996 presidential contest, the party seemed doomed--an antideficit party in a budget-surplus world. Ventura's 1998 gubernatorial win gave Reform new life and its first major officeholder, but there was no honeymoon. Ventura and Perot eyed each other with suspicion; the two have spoken only twice in their lives. Ventura felt that Perot gave him no help when he ran for Governor and that...