Word: michigans
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...gain over the previous two years, but is still low considering that blacks represent about 12.4% of the U.S. population. "If we were color- blind as a nation, then ending these scholarships would be understandable," says Gina Smith, 19, the first recipient of a joint Hope College-University of Michigan scholarship for minority students interested in medicine. "But we're not there...
...takeoffs been permitted? One pilot traveling as a passenger on the 727 insisted that visibility had been less than a quarter-mile. Francis McKelvey, an airport designer and engineering professor at Michigan State, said it is time for aviation officials to ask "whether you should be operating an airport if you can't see all the surfaces on which aircraft are moving...
Last week House Republicans sent two messages -- neither of them welcome -- to the White House. They re-elected Gingrich minority whip and retained Michigan Congressman Guy Vander Jagt as chairman of the G.O.P.'s House campaign committee, boldly rejecting White House-backed Tennessee Congressman Don Sundquist. That leaves in place the committee's co-chairman, Ed Rollins, who had infuriated Bush and White House chief of staff John Sununu by suggesting that G.O.P. candidates in last month's elections distance themselves from the President for reneging on his "no new taxes" pledge. Vander Jagt refuses to fire Rollins...
...never be more than marginal in quality. To make a profit, however, vintners must charge premium prices for what, realistically, is vin ordinaire. But for the Adventurous Oenophile and his ilk, the discovery of a promising little Merlot from North Carolina (try Biltmore's) or a delicate Eiswein from Michigan (taste one from Chateau Grand Traverse) will always be worth the cost...
...Commissioner Fred Goldberg is feeling some heat. A report by the House Government Operations Committee blasts the IRS for high-level misconduct and cover-ups. "Crooks auditing crooks," charges committee chairman John Conyers Jr. of Michigan. Even worse, a second report by a Goldberg-picked panel of outside experts concludes that the commissioner's solutions to the crisis are "narrow" and deal mostly with "symptoms rather than root causes." Specifically, the panel found that many IRS criminal-investigation agents are not supervised, nor are they adequately trained in ethics. The report was sent to Goldberg...