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Faculty Senate to vote on consolidation
By Piper Huddleston
Staff Reporter

The TCU Faculty Senate will decide next week if the Student Organizations and Student Conduct and Grievance Committees should be consolidated, Lynn Flahive, chairwoman of the Student Conduct and Grievance committee, said Tuesday.
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EIF value drops, still ahead of other market indexes
By Jordan Blum
Staff Reporter

Although their portfolio has received a hit since Sept. 11, Educational Investment Fund students say they have stayed ahead of the other market indexes so far. But, they admit a huge cloud of uncertainty hovers over the fund and even its beneficiary, the university endowment, considering the potential for a drawn-out war and future terrorist attacks.
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Temporary committee officially added
By Kristin Delorantis
Staff Reporter

The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday night making the temporary Residential Concerns committee a permanent addition to the House.
Sophomore advertising/public relations major Todd Clower was appointed chairperson for the Residential Concerns committee on a trial-run basis last year and will now remain chairperson on the permanent committee.
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Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic ties with Taliban
By Christopher Newton
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Bush brought congressional leaders up to date Tuesday on U.S. troop deployments around the globe and said the government was working to restore confidence in airline security and help workers thrown off the job. Saudi Arabia broke diplomatic ties with the terrorist-harboring rulers of Afghanistan.
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Pilots union asks to carry firearms
Congressional reactions mixed as to how much security guns provide
By Leigh Strope
Associated press

WASHINGTON — The Air Line Pilots Association pressed Congress Tuesday to allow pilots to carry firearms in cockpits, a move the union says could prevent hijackings.
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American Airlines to set up pay-cut program
By John-Mark Day
Staff Reporter

American Airlines is expected to lay off more than 20,000 employees this week as a result of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, American spokesman Mark Slitt said Tuesday.
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Last year’s poverty rate reached a 27-year low
By Genaro C. Armas
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The U.S. poverty rate dipped last year to its lowest level in over a quarter-century, driven down by a healthy economy that helped a broad range of workers. Incomes leveled off after years of increase.
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Red Cross gives grants to families of attack victims
By Brooke Donald
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Red Cross will give grants of up to $30,000 to families of people who died or are missing in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The first tax-free payments were sent to families Friday and are meant to assist with short-term expenses such as mortgage or rent payments and funeral costs.
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Greenspan, Rubin agree on tax cuts to stimulate struggling economy
By Curt Anderson
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin told tax-writing senators Tuesday that any plan using tax cuts to stimulate the struggling economy should be large enough to be effective, possibly as much as $100 billion.
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