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Most Principled Congressperson Would nobody step forward and accept responsibility for the $500 billion S&L debacle? Wait! Who's that dowdy Representative resigning her seat to atone for Congress's sins? Lacey Davenport, the heart-of-gold legislator from the glorious state of Doonesbury. The grande dame was swept back into office in a write-in campaign...
...alarmists have gained some qualified support from the Environmental Protection Agency. In the executive summary of a new scientific review, released in draft form late last week, the EPA has put forward what amounts to the most serious government warning to date. The agency tentatively concludes that scientific evidence "suggests a causal link" between extremely low- frequency electromagnetic fields -- those having very long wavelengths -- and leukemia, lymphoma and brain cancer. While the report falls short of classifying ELF fields as probable carcinogens, it does identify the common 60-hertz magnetic field as "a possible, but not proven, cause of cancer...
With Harvard blue-liners Kevin Sneddon and Derek Maguire not skating because of injury, the Crimson defense entered the game with its ranks depleted. Freshman Lou Body lost the puck in the Harvard end and Big Green forward Bill Fitzpatrick put the puck in seconds later to cut Harvard's lead to 5-2 with 7:44 left in the second period...
...petition, who argues, "The Constitution clearly gives Congress the right to declare war. This situation is too grave for one person to take us into it alone." Laurence Tribe, Harvard's famed professor of constitutional law, agrees with this. Tribe dismisses as a "smokescreen" the Administration view, put forward by Secretary of State James Baker, that presidential consultation with Congress would be a legally sufficient substitute for a formal declaration of war. "The structure and history of the Constitution," Tribe contends, "make clear that the framers deliberately rejected any scheme that would give the Chief Executive the power to make...
Webster's description of an Iraq under severe economic pressure is a depiction much bleaker than that put forward by the White House. In recent weeks the Bush Administration has been closing ranks to offer a suddenly more downbeat assessment of whether sanctions can work. In late October, George Bush was still expressing the hope that the embargo could force Saddam to retreat. But last week, a few days after the United Nations Security Council approved the use of military force in the gulf, he declared, "I've not been one who has been convinced that sanctions alone would bring...