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...increased competition from these organizations threaten Harvard's ability to support its prestigious medical community, one of the premier networks of health care providers in the Northeast...
...Bossert Threaten Police...
Such disputes could doom the bill and throw the most contentious issues back to regulators and the courts. But any talk of a defeated bill alarms Reed Hundt, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, who argues that the creaky regulations now in effect threaten to delay the arrival of two-way TV. Says he: "It would be a huge mistake to underestimate the current barriers to competition...
...When the President has problems passing his bills in Congress, he should threaten them with one hour of his sax playing. Then he would have no problems with filibustering. What he lacks in skill, talent, imagination, technique and swing, he more than makes up for with desire and hustle." -- Jazz great (and Democrat) Wynton Marsalis, commenting on the President's new CD, Bill Clinton Jam Session: The Pres Blows
Fearing reprisals, thousands more Hutu threaten to flee...