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This summer, Ben-Shachar will continue to lead workshops in Singapore. He is also helping to coordinate a two-week leadership program for next year's seven South African Nieman Fellows. In August, he and Lana Israel '97 will lead a week-long educational intervention program for township children in South Africa. Their goal, he says, is to "empower these children--to increase their belief in themselves, help them set goals, clarify their values [and] get a vision for themselves and for their community, so they can give back to their community." The program is being sponsored by Argus...
After a bizarre two-week sabbatical, Washington mayor Marion Barry returned to work last week sounding like an escapee from a New Age encounter. He had learned, he said, that he had invested too much time worrying about the beleaguered city he presides over and not enough worrying about himself. From now on, Barry proclaimed, he would not fret so much about things over which he had no control, like the big snowfall last winter. "No more 16-hour days for me," he said, vowing that henceforth his highest priority would be to connect with God. And, Barry hastened...
Eighth-grader Gina M. Orsetti traveled from Mexico with her family on a two-week college visiting trip...
...roll back crop-subsidy programs born in the Great Depression. "This is a complete departure from the past," said Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. Passed on a 74 to 26 vote, the far-reaching House- Senate compromise plan is expected to win House approval before Congress leaves for a two-week recess March 30. Although President Clinton says he has some reservations about the bill, he is expected to sign it. The measure would wean wheat, corn and cotton farmers off the current system of crop supports by replacing it with a seven- year program of declining, fixed payments. "This...
...trail. "The core issues of his campaign are going to be more Contract With America themes such as balancing the budget and returning authority to the states," she says. "This is what he talks about in just about every speech." Next weekend, the Senate majority leader begins a two-week vacation to catch his breath and plot a course through the next few months, which will feature a flurry of activity on Capitol Hill. Edwards says that the retreat will be a working vacation, and Dole will seek the advice of his wife, Elizabeth, and trusted friends...