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Clinton cuts foreign aid $4.7 billion. Kasich cuts it $13.6 billion. Clinton freezes subsidies to the arts. Kasich slices them in half. He also kills all mass-transit operating subsidies and other subsidies to railroads and airports. By eliminating all Clinton's tax increases, he gives the typical median-income household an annual break of $173 and the typical $200,000-plus household a break...
Keno loved trains. When he was 12, his family left their native Trinidad to live in New York City -- and Keno became enthralled with the subway system. "He'd never seen anything like it before," says his sister Melissa, 13. He collected transit uniform shirts and equipment, read motormen's training manuals, drew pictures of the different trains and rode the subway for hours ; at a time. At home Keno would sit at a desk and, using a stapler as a make- believe throttle, pretend to drive through routes, calling out stops and taking on passengers. "For hours he would...
Keno learned all about the system by hanging out in the subway dispatcher's office in Brooklyn, where he picked up the transit jargon and befriended motormen. Keno, stocky and stout, convinced one of them, Regoberto Sabio, that he was a 25-year-old motorman, and would ride Sabio's route with him. "He didn't show me an ID card or anything like that," Sabio later told a reporter, "but there was nothing in his mannerisms that made me think he was anything but another motorman." By riding with Sabio, Keno learned firsthand how to drive the trains, what...
Clinton included tax breaks for new firms and new investments in plant and equipment. He asked for more spending for infrastructure (highways, mass transit, a network to link up public facilities)--the kind of thing that will make the U.S. more productive in the long run. He included $3 billion here for energy research and development and $5.75 billion there for tax incentives for those who would invest in low-income housing...
...Hispanic American to win the Pulitzer Prize for his second novel. The Mambo kings Play Songs of Love. Born in New York City to Cuban immigrant parents, Hijuelos attended City College where his memos included Donald Barthelme and Susan Sontag. Hijuelos held a low-level job with a mass transit advertising agency before quitting in 1980, when his first novel, Our House in the Last World, was published. He spoke recently with The Crimson about his new novel. The fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien...