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Consider the BIA's distribution of tribal-priority-allocation (TPA) funds to tribes. Each year the BIA hands out about $800 million for basic programs such as general assistance to individual Indians and families, vocational training and child welfare. While TPA funding is a small fraction of the BIA's total spending on Native Americans, it underscores how awry the system has gone. In President Bush's 2003 budget proposal, the 28,000 Turtle Mountain Chippewa in North Dakota, 68% of whom are unemployed, will receive the equivalent of an average $154 each. But the 400 members of the Miccosukee...
McGrath stays focused on the heart of his story, the conflict between perfect good and perfect evil, making for a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps Dickens evergreen: the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions...
...government that fails to come completely clean about a poultry problem hardly inspires confidence regarding even more complex matters such as the introduction of new anti-subversion laws. Hong Kong's mini-constitution, called the Basic Law, requires the government to enact legislation preventing acts of subversion and treason against China. The government had the option of introducing a minimalist bill replacing outdated references to acts against the British Crown by making a tight definition of subversion that would not have caused much alarm. Instead it plans a wide-ranging bill that not only provides a very broad definition...
...form is too perfect, too precise for us to have invented," he says. Motioning toward some of the 90 different cheeses and 95 pasta shapes he sells, Tamburini says he frowns on too much cross-pollination of regional and national cuisines and insists on sticking close to the basic traditions. Bologna, to the disdain of some top restaurant critics, has been very wary about welcoming nouvelle cuisine, but Tamburini is unrepentant. "Abandoning traditional dishes is like trying to wash away the memory of poverty," he says. "Experiments are okay, but [a chef] must have great, great culture to know...
...plans to spend his year working on improving basic education and health care in the northern part of the country...