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...Higher Education Act giveth, but it also taketh away. This page is deeply concerned about one provision of the bill, which makes it possible for universities to inform a student's parents if the student breaks state or federal laws or school policies on drug abuse. Such a provision seems to set a dangerous precedent for excessive intrusions into students' lives. A student trusted to go thousands of dollars in debt to finance an education must also be trusted to negotiate with his or her parents on non-fiscal matters...
...Juducial Branch -- seems to be doing most of the talking. Well, Ken, it was the Supreme Court who brought you Monica, and Judge Johnson who let you get all the way up the ladder with Bruce Lindsey and the Secret Service. But SCOTUS giveth, and SCOTUS taketh away. As one lucky criminal (not a President) says with heavy irony in The Star Chamber (1983), "God bless f---ing America...
However, the Panthers showed that if the power play giveth, the power play also taketh away. Middlebury evened the contest on a power play goal early in the second period...
...Greenspan's message: lawmakers shouldn't get cocky about budget deals and decreasing deficits; the juggernaut economy deserves the credit ? and what it giveth, it can surely taketh away. He urged John Kasich and the rest of the committee to start stockpiling budget surpluses, because dark clouds are always gathering. "The law of supply and demand has not been repealed," Greenspan read. "If labor demand continues to outpace sustainable increases in supply, the question is surely when, not whether, labor costs will escalate more rapidly." Translation: inflation still lurks in the heart of the boom. And the Fed is watching...
...this a vote of confidence or something darker? "What John Malone giveth, John Malone can taketh away," says Porter Bibb, a media-investment banker at Ladenburg, Thalmann who has been a frequent critic of Levin's. Bibb believes that Malone saw the merger as an avenue to power. "Levin is now a puppet on Malone's strings. Malone is never going to be CEO of Time Warner. He'll probably never sit on the board. But he wanted to control Levin, and now he does." A scenario even has Malone divesting some cable interests, getting back his voting stock...