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...council member Tom Hadfield '08 said they haven’t given up their fight, and would challenge Haddock’s ruling...
...Tom Coburn, a Republican Senator from Oklahoma, has a problem with the $106 billion bill the Senate is working on that would help pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, preparation in case of a breakout of avian flu, rebuilding of the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina - and many tangentially related projects. Well, actually, the first-term Senator has at least 19 concerns. He called $176 million in the bill to refurbish a retirement home in Mississippi for veterans an "arbitrary sum." Another $10 million to equip fishing boats with logbooks to record data on how much they fish...
...soft-spoken, polite man who has long worked as obstetrician, Tom Coburn has angered senators from the right and the left in his decade-long battle to cut what he considers pork-barrel spending from the federal budget. Coburn has diagnosed such spending, known as earmarks, as "the gateway drug to spending addiction" and he's determined to cure Congress of this malady. As the Senate has worked to pass a key appropriations bill over the last two weeks, Coburn has attached 19 amendments to the bill, all targeting spending provisions he thinks are pork. Most famous for his attacks...
Herbert S. Hughes ’52, formerly of Kirkland House, could not attend the event but was represented by his daughter, Amy S. Hughes ’78. And William M. Simmons ’52, once a Winthrop House resident, was also represented by his brother, Tom Simmons...
...Portsmouth, R.I. The team finished sixth in the 12-team field at Green Valley Country Club, 27 shots behind eventual winner Binghamton—a team that will contend for an NCAA Regional at-large bid. “It was a tough day one,” junior Tom Hegge said. “It was really windy, and I think 330 is one of our higher scores this year.” The Crimson finished just eight shots back of third-place Dartmouth, while soundly defeating ninth-place Brown by 22 shots. But despite...