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...spirit of friendly competition. Cashing in on the success of ABC's "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire," we could have a campus-wide search for that special someone who will be our special-teams savior. We could call it "Who Wants To Be a Crimson Placekicker?" and even have a short, annoying man moderate the contests during halftime at home games. With the potential for corporate sponsors, we might be able to also fund spin-offs of our contest to other schools with bad kickers, like Florida State...
...three simple bills that presented opportunities to fix the barbaric 1996 immigration law. The first bill, which was dropped in a GOP closed-door session earlier this month, would have restored health care benefits for pregnant legal immigrants and their newborn children. Such Medicare coverage was cut in 1996, even though legal immigrants pay taxes and have to bear all the responsibilities of citizens. Beyond the moral abhorrence of denying health care to newborns, there is a compelling financial argument against the 1996 cuts: Society's costs in providing competent prenatal and perinatal care are far less than those...
...contains exemptions (for instance, for religious entities) designed to ease its passage, it has not received so much as a committee hearing. Similarly, a hate-crimes measure recently struck from the Defense Department appropriations bill by Senate Republicans would have added sexual orientation to the list of protected categories. Even philosophical opponents of hate-crimes laws must recognize that nothing is gained by arbitrarily excluding certain victims...
...Harvard victory over Princeton creates a logjam atop the Ivy standings. The Crimson and Tigers are now tied for first, while both Brown (11-2, 3-1) and Dartmouth (10-3, 3-1) are even with the two leaders in the loss column...
...decided in the last precinct, in the last state, in the last hour, on the last day." No one issue, no one theme, no one gaffe is likely to matter as much as who prevails in a series of Verdun-style conflicts in key areas of targeted states--sometimes even individual neighborhoods. "It's an old infantry expression," says Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, a Bush ally whose state is one of the biggest prizes. "Once you take ground, you have to keep...