Word: want
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...have got into UCLA under affirmative action, but she isn't upset about how things have worked out. "I just cared about the U.C. part--I didn't care about the Los Angeles or the Irvine," she says. "I think it's going to help me do what I want to do." Lomeli will be the first person in her family to enter college...
...anyone suggested a new entitlement. Most experts agree that adding items and fundamentally reforming Medicare will require some kind of sacrifice by beneficiaries, either paying higher premiums or delaying the eligibility age. But suggesting such reforms may carry a high political price. "There are some in both parties who want the election to be based on whose fault it is we did nothing about Medicare," says Democratic Senator John Breaux, whose yearlong Medicare commission failed to come to consensus largely over the issue of how much coverage to provide for drugs. Says Breaux: "Republicans want to blame Democrats...
...campaign-finance reform was a loser issue. They quietly commissioned a poll of G.O.P. voters in four key primary states to prove their point. But when the results came in, they showed 60% of voters saying campaign-finance reform was important, vs. just 15% saying it wasn't. "Voters want the system changed," says John Weaver, McCain's political director...
Making peace with Syria may be a prerequisite for fulfilling Barak's most concrete campaign pledge: to withdraw within a year Israel's occupation forces from south Lebanon, where they are fighting a costly, no-win war with the Hizballah militia. Barak wants an agreement from Lebanon that its army will disarm Hizballah and protect northern Israel from infiltration and rocket fire. Lebanon won't make that deal without the approval of Syria, which doesn't want to release Israel from its Lebanon quagmire without a reward...
...payoff for any company that can help kids overcome barriers to learning must be measured in more than dollars. "Boy, if you can increase the confidence of students in their own ability, you can affect a change in their lives," says Kleyn. Back in New Jersey, Nicole Davis might want to write a poem about that...