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Bush's energy-policy task force, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, had its first full meeting on ANWR last Friday, and Bush and Cheney have made it clear that drilling there will top their list of recommendations. "I campaigned hard on the notion of having environmentally sensitive exploration at ANWR," Bush said last month, "and I think we can do so." Environmentalists counter that just as there is no way to be half-pregnant, there is no "sensitive" way to drill in a wilderness...
This may seem a throwback notion in the digital era, but industry veterans say a knowledgeable travel agent can be a miracle worker when things go wrong. Unlike an airline employee, a travel agent is working for you, and he or she can search options faster and more efficiently than...
...Core program seeks to introduce students to the major approaches to knowledge in areas deemed vital to a liberal arts education. Upon developing the critical tools of a discipline, students will be well-equipped to further examine any of its topics. The notion of an "approach to knowledge" must be distinguished from knowledge as such. The question is not merely "What is the theme of The Brothers Karamazov?" but "How does literature function?" and "How are literary genres constituted and transformed?" Beyond a comprehension of the historical events that comprised the French Revolution, students in Historical Studies...
...Christopher Dodd got Greenspan to agree that the "core" of his support of tax cuts was based on the notion of not paying down the national debt too fast - a possibility that nobody in Washington but Greenspan seems to take seriously. And Dodd also did his best to pin the Fed chairman down on what is fast emerging as Democrats' sharpest line of attack: "the trigger." If the surpluses don't pan out - and the way Schumer had it figured, the surpluses were already spent - shouldn't the tax cuts be able to be cut off, to save the balanced...
...everybody is so enthusiastic. Representative Edward Markey (D., Mass.) promptly declared himself "appalled" and issued a statement peppered with words like "Orwellian" and "nightmare." The American Civil Liberties Union is calling for public hearings and has requested all documents relating to the surveillance. "It's chilling, the notion that 100,000 people were subject to video surveillance and had their identities checked by the government," says Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the A.C.L.U. "We think the rights of the fans in Tampa were violated...