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...Congress swept into office last January with a sharpened axe in hand and the federal budget on the chopping block. And education dollars have been near the top of the list of endangered funding...
...Crimson editor is probably the worst personto judge how much conventional academic lifecontinued among the Class of 1970 during the seaof changes that swept through our years inCambridge...
...White House's defense was -- well, defensive. Clinton's apologia basically was Congress made me do it. In truth, the heat from Capitol Hill could no longer be ignored. Although pressure was strongest from Republican conservatives who swept congressional elections last November, sentiments in favor of Lee were bipartisan: nonbinding resolutions for the visa passed both the House and Senate by nearly unanimous votes. While Clinton's advisers refused at first to budge on the issue, they began worrying about a Republican bill that would force their hands and, in effect, remove China policy from presidential control. In their view...
...months police swept through the extensive offices, factories and businesses of Aum in search of evidence and arrested dozens of lower-ranking members on a variety of minor charges. They discovered that Aum had as many as 30,000 members in Russia, where the group bought chemical-weapons detection gear, and owned a ranch in Australia, where the sarin gas was tested on sheep. For fear of being seen to be treading on religious freedom, Japanese police were reluctant to question key Aum figures until they had clinching evidence of their guilt. However, after Hideo Murai, a top Aum science...
Throughout his public life, Bush has swept aides and Cabinet officers into a kind of professional family, constantly praising them for their skills and loyalty. He reveres the people who have taken the public journey with him through his tours at the United Nations, China, the CIA and the White House. Retired Marine General P.X. Kelly, former press aide Peter Roussel, former domestic-policy chief Roger Porter and others are in his phone network, slipping into the Bush cantonments in Texas and Maine for fishing, tennis and camaraderie...