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...workers in an effort to stem mounting operating losses. Amtrak cited a possible cut in its federal subsidy and intense competition with low airline and bus fares as reasons for cutbacks. Starting February 1, Amtrak will reduce the frequency of trains on several routes including its busy Northeast corridor service between Boston and Washington, D.C. Slated to be cut completely after April are the Chicago-Milwaukee, Chicago-Grand Rapids and San Jose-Sacramento-Roseville routes. Overall, 530 stations won't see the Amtrak's silver trains, officials said. Amtrak has always depended heavily on federal subsidies -- $952 million this year...
...nearly dusk on a recent evening when a U.S. Special Forces team walked into a village northeast of Port-au-Prince and encountered a problem for which their training manuals had not prepared them. Several mothers were convinced that a pair of werewolves, in the form of two local women, had placed a curse on the village children and were now preparing to consume their babies' souls. As he listened, the team's warrant officer tucked his hand into his pocket, snapped open a chemical light stick that soldiers use as markers at night and announced in Creole that...
James S. Gwertzman '95 says he is impressed by what he can access through the Web: "up-to-date Boston movie listings, ski conditions in the Northeast, and weather forecasts are just a few of the things that...
...satisfactions of American democracy is that after each election, we can imagine a little map on which dozens of tiny dotted lines converge northeast of Virginia, as dozens of Mr. Smiths from all over make their way to Washington. It is gratifying to think of those Smiths; they represent civic responsibility successfully discharged. For one alarming, if heady, moment, the weight of a nation rests directly on our shoulders; then suddenly it is on theirs, and we are proud and relieved to announce our latest set of leaders...
...Everyone in the Northeast lobbed for success is struggling a bit. Clarkson got drilled at RPI and tied Union over the weekend; RPI lost to Army (Army?) a week before that. Vermont started 4-0-0, then slipped up at Cornell on Saturday...