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...breakfast with Bowles in Raleigh, I wonder if the race is between Stiff and Stiffer. Bowles, 57, who dresses and speaks like the banker he was, stresses Dole's opposition in 1989 to an increase in the minimum wage. In a state chock-full of seniors who didn't make it to Florida, he is scoring points with Social Security, which Dole, like Bush, would privatize, after a fashion. She now proposes that a modest 2% gointo private investments, but some worry even that amount could cripple the system...
...intriguing to learn where and how al-Qaeda is regrouping, because anyone with common sense knows it is not defeated. Al-Faruq's secret testimony is precisely the kind of information the U.S. government needs if it is to wage a successful war on terrorism. SEAN BECKER Erie...
...yesterday’s student protesters in front of the Science Center look kind of familiar? These are, after all, the same folks who brought us such hits as “Living Wage,” “Justice for Janitors,” “Save Cornel West,” and “Justice for Janitors We Didn’t Get Justice For Last Time.” In my four years here, they have been more omnipresent than B.J. Averell ‘03 and as unavoidable as an IOP poster. Well...
...economy each day it continues, according to the Pacific Maritime Association 79% of Indians who sold a kidney for transplant said they would not recommend it to others, citing deteriorating health and no lasting financial benefits $9 billion a month is how much it could cost the U.S. to wage war against Iraq, according to a new congressional study 4,799 people provided samples of their belly button lint to help an Australian scientist complete his study of the phenomenon 60% of British children between ages 7 and 16 know what an Internet homepage is, according to a recent study...
...find a better world for herself and her infant daughter. But she soon discovered that life in Switzerland wasn't a box of chocolates. The 32-year-old Geneva office cleaner and single mom has been struggling to make ends meet on ?2,000 a month, a meager wage in a place where her one bedroom apartment alone costs ?800 a month. "Some months, after buying food and paying rent, utilities and health insurance, I have ?30 left in my pocket," says Diaz, who's looking for a second job. "That's not even enough to buy my daughter...