President Clinton announced his administration's education initiative this week. The plan aims at making higher education
more affordable, easier to complete and a more realistic dream for the college students of the future. The centerpiece of the
strategy is the bipartisan Schumer-Snowe plan, a $31.4 billion investment over 10 years in the form of targeted tax credits,
federal grants and a program to encourage and facilitate the collegiate goals of younger students. This initiative will help make
college education more affordable to everyone.
ast week, North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms had the honor of being the first U.S. legislator to address the United Nations
Security Council. The occasion could have been an opportunity for constructive discussions and criticisms between the
United Nations and the man who is most responsible for making the United States the world body's biggest debtor./H1>
Once in a while (read: every decade or so) an e-mail will be complimentary. But, more often than not, people write letters because we writers have done something to tick them off. This may mean that we printed something incorrectly, failed to prooofreed* our articels*, or expressed an opinion that someone contests.
