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...base housing as income. The proposal, not surprisingly, turned out to be a p.r. disaster. The Pentagon would have been cutting its food-stamp rolls not by boosting benefits but by a bookkeeping trick. Defense Secretary William Cohen ordered the scheme scrapped. Instead, Cohen is taking the opposite tack. He wants to stop counting the off-base housing allowance no longer calculated as part of a soldier's income. Doing that, Pentagon officials acknowledge, could double the number of soldiers on food stamps. Cohen says it is wrong for soldiers to be treated differently on the basis of where they...
Harvard has thus far steered a prudent course, remaining affiliated with the FLA while the WRC worked through the complicated process of establishing itself as a functional and legitimate monitoring organization. However, the time has arrived for Harvard to take a new tack. We urge Harvard to withdraw its support for the FLA and join the 46 universities and numerous labor and human rights groups who have decided to back the WRC. Doing so while the WRC is still in its early stages will give Harvard the opportunity to help shape the organization's policies. Harvard would also send...
...Bush isn't quite ready to follow McCain's authenticity tack into the public's hearts. While the Arizona senator wears such "honesty" well, it could be seen as hypocritical coming from Bush, who has repeatedly attacked Al Gore as poll-driven and without conviction. On Thursday, Bush reaffirmed his position that the flag is a state issue. Now he finds himself trapped between states' rights purists and moral purists, between presenting himself as a man of conviction and bending to public opinion, and between his vision of an expanded federal government and a strong position on state sovereignty...
...Tack another chapter onto junior track superstar Dora Gyorffy's storybook year...
There is one force, though, that is not covered by the standard model: the force of gravity. Einstein's general theory of relativity gives a good account of gravitation at ordinary distances, and if we like, we can tack it on to the standard model. But serious mathematical inconsistencies turn up when we try to apply it to particles separated by tiny distances--distances about 10 million billion times smaller than those probed in the most powerful particle accelerators...