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Recently, Plaquemines has had a new minority to deal with. An old wooden shrimp boat, billowing black smoke, pulls into an isolated bayou near the mouth of the river. Laughingly pushing his cousin aside, Phuoc Nguyen, 11, grabs the tie line and loops two half hitches around a stake on...
The House agreed (and the Senate will probably take a similar stand next month). It voted down the Administration's proposals, 225 to 193, and approved the Ways and Means Committee bill 362 to 49. That provides an overall tax cut of $16.3 billion. The message will not entirely...
Overlaying the wrangle about tax policy is the growing debate on how, after more than three years of solid expansion, to guide the economy into a "soft landing"-to use the current Washington catch phrase. That is, how to shake the wind out of inflation without tipping the country back...
Freshman Don Pompan, playing at two in his first league match ever, turned in the most amazing performance of the day as he defeated Lion David Cooper by a gnat's eyelash--that translates to 3-6, 7-6 with a 5-4 tiebreaker (ulp), and 7-5. Pompan broke...
From now on, Harvard and Radcliffe will only be able to spend about one-third of their work-study budgets during the summer--a figure that translates into about 60 jobs for women, and 155 for men, for this year.