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Shakespeare's birthday on April 23 will be marked by an extraordinary relay. Over 24 hours, 60 groups of youngsters from New Zealand to Hawaii will enact excerpts from his plays. As part of this project, a Serbian youth group will perform Romeo and Juliet. How will they respond in a country so scarred by its own history of tribal divisions? Life has taught me a hard lesson about the power and impact of that play: my father, who died in 1970, banished me from his life because I played Juliet in a school production that dared to confront...
...most important change that this bill would enact would be to raise the maximum number of Pell Grants, the federal grant for students from low-income families, raising the grants $750 above their present ceiling. It is the specificity of this bill that tries to help students avoid private loans that is essential to its overall merit. To persuade students that have turned to the costlier private loans because they are able to borrow more money, Kennedy’s bill also raises the amount a student may borrow in a federal loan for a financially dependent undergraduate...
...able to give a great speech on the costs of a college education, his policies will hurt the very families that they aim to help by weakening the economy.” Weatherl said Obama’s plans to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire and to enact policies that would “fail to allow free trade” would weaken the economy, forcing recent college graduates further into debt. Although the issue of tuition costs was ranked most important among issues related to higher education, respondents were nearly equally divided over whether the federal government...
...table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] DEMOCRAT Hillary Clinton DEMOCRAT Barack Obama REPUBLICAN John McCain 'I would take immediate, comprehensive action to fix the housing crisis.' Calls for a $30 billion emergency fund to help states combat the foreclosure mess; gives lenders new incentives to restructure mortgages 'I would enact my mortgage agenda to ensure that families can stay in their homes.' His proposal would give lenders incentives to buy or refinance existing adjustable-rate mortgages and convert them to 30-year fixed ones 'Eliminate the AMT, which the middle class was never intended to pay.' McCain wants...
...Senate passed?The Intelligence Authorization Bill bans the Central Intelligence Agency from using acts of torture. It calls on the CIA to follow the United States Army Field Manual on Human Intelligence Collector Operations in the treatment of individuals. For Senator McCain, this bill was a seminal opportunity to enact measures he has been advocating for years. The bill explicitly banned waterboarding, and McCain has been one of the strongest voices calling on the White House to ban the practice as torture. Yet when asked to explain his recent vote, McCain argued, “What we need...