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...Under the G.I. Bill, officially known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, veterans received stipends to attend college or vocational training...
...disbarment too. Voluntarily, at his own instigation, Nixon relinquished his California law license. (He tried to do the same in New York, but the lawyers there wanted the fun of disbarring him themselves.) By sparing himself and his country a great deal of unpleasantness and embarrassment, Nixon performed an act of unaccustomed grace--class, even. A judge may soon decide whether President Clinton has the ethics of an Arkansas lawyer. But Clinton himself can decide whether he's as classy as Richard Nixon...
...right to Israel's might. "We have a talmudic saying, 'Truth is self-evident,'" Barak reflected in his office last week. "When you do the right thing, it cannot weaken you. I'm not working for ratings or for the momentary mood. It doesn't matter. If we act to change reality in the right direction, it strengthens us. It doesn't weaken...
...Millions of years of Darwinian evolution have led to who I am, in addition to everything my parents did to mold me--the Dave Brubeck albums, the fondue, the deification of Danny Kaye, car-pooling me every Wednesday to chemin de fer lessons. And I would consider it an act of ingratitude and betrayal to become an entirely different person. So I try to deal with setbacks and crises in my life the way I always have--by locking myself in my room, setting small fires and blasting music into my headphones at jackhammer levels...
...high time the government did something to stop the spread of computer violence! All computer users should be registered with the Federal Government, and there should be a mandatory one-week waiting period for computer sales nationwide. If Congress does not have the will to act on this, the Federal and state governments should file lawsuits against computer manufacturers to recoup the damages caused by these viruses. We must stop the threat posed by easy access to computers. ANDREW L. LEVY Los Angeles...