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Permissive age or not, it is unwise to be too understanding of rapists even in a relatively liberal university town like Madison, Wis. Judge Archie Simonson learned that lesson last week while handily losing his $36,000-a-year seat on the Dane County (Madison) bench in the first judicial-recall election held in the U S in three decades...
...erase all traces of his own incursion. Admits FBI Computer Expert James Barko: "Many cases are discovered completely by accident," like noticing suspicious high living by low-paid clerks. After raiding a New York bookie, police traced a $30,000-per-day betting account back to an $11,000-a-year teller at the Union Dime Savings Bank and discovered that he had made off with $1.5 million by the computerized shuffling of funds among little-used accounts. Even if caught, a computer thief may not be prosecuted. Fearing embarrassing publicity, some firms merely fire the offender and absorb...
...that darkened eight states in the Northeast-that old Con Ed catharsis began working overtime. Federal, state and local agencies launched investigations of the power failure. Politicians and editorial writers howled over the fact that only three days before the city went dark, Con Ed's $200,000-a-year chairman had said he could "guarantee" that the chances of another blackout were remote. New York Mayor Abraham Beame summarily convicted Con Ed's management of "gross negligence," if not something "far more serious...
...main complaint against Rivlin is that she is too publicity-conscious and sometimes goes beyond her $52,500-a-year job as staff technician and seeks to influence policy. The CBO, with its staff of 208 economists and other specialists, was set up to analyze tax and spending options in all areas, from defense to welfare, and assess costs and probable impact on the economy. As a result, Congress can now set spending ceilings and sometimes even cut appropriations to stay under them. At the same time, the legislators can keep a close watch on individual spending programs. Before, Congress...
...work political operatives, for example, are finding second careers in the field: former Democratic Strategist Alan Baron claims 2,400 readers (most pay $39) for the Baron Report he launched last summer, and ex-Nixon Aide Kevin Phillips says he has nearly 1,000 subscribers to his $94-a-year American Political Report. Among the latest victims of newsletter fever are magazine and book publishers: U.S. News and World Report and Newsweek have launched newsletters in the past year, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich last year paid $1.4 million for a Boston group of seven letters, and CBS and Field Enterprises...