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...power of the purse is Congress's most effective weapon, and the House last week wielded it like a double-bladed sword. Although the House approved George Bush's request for $291 billion in total military spending next year, its version of the 1992 defense-spending bill axed the President's pet B-2 Stealth bomber program and drastically cut funding for his Strategic Defense Initiative antiballistic-missile project...
France's national library system is in even worse shape. There are no open stacks, a library used may request only three books at a time, and no one can ever take books out of the library...
...down in a car accident. Harrison's realization that he will never recover leads him to prefer dying to continuing to live as a creative mind trapped in an immobile body. In addition, Harrison feels dehumanized in the antiseptic atmosphere of the hospital, where compassion is considered unprofessional. His request to die is viewed by his doctors as another symptom of shock--something to be treated with valium. Only through a court order does Harrison finally receive the right...
According to unnamed government sources cited in The New York Times, Kloske was fired. His official resignation was secured by Commerce Secretary Robert A. Mosbacher at the request of John H. Sununu, White House chief of staff...
...with a woman: that is an abomination." The Old Testament is very clear in its condemnation of the homosexual lifestyle, which Hillel has embraced as a legitimate "minority." If AALARM is to be condemned for its belief in the immorality of homosexuality and sodomy, then we merely request that Hillel ascend from shallow hypocrisy and admonish all groups and institutions espousing similar beliefs. Will Hillel condemn the Old Testament? The Jewish religion? The state of Israel, which has sodomy laws harsher than any found in the United States...