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...living rose 62%. More important, top Government officials, whose salaries are linked to those of Congressmen, have also had their pay capped, widening the salary gap between executives in the public and private sectors to the point where the financial sacrifices being made by top Government officials have become absurd. The chairman of the Federal Reserve, for example, makes $60,662, compared with $581,533 for the chairman of Citicorp; the Secretary of Defense makes $69,630, compared with $1.2 million for the chairman of United Technologies, a major military contractor. Yet Congress has consistently panicked at the prospect...
...time is 1961, when there actually were airwave couples like Les and Bess observing the absurd convention that breakfast was a time for smiley voices instead of burned toast and reviewing comedies like this. Nowadays, when the shows that used to be off-Broadway are on the main stem, and Broadway shows are running in the little houses, things like this open less glitzily. But the formula is as ever: one set, six characters, some brisk banter and a simple conflict in values bobbing along the sparkly surface...
...idea that two men should be tried for exactly the same crime without any evidence to prove who did what and get dramatically different sentences seems absurd. When one of the sentences meted out is death, the absurdity becomes a sickening disgrace. You don't have to be an opponent of capital punishment to see the crime in the execution of Brooks, only someone who respects the law. The law says that guilt must be proved "beyond reasonable doubt." But no one knows who pulled the trigger...
That church's action was not entirely isolated. While the finishing touches were being put on the Supreme Court's decision in Washington, two other Cambridge churches were also taking advantage of their powers under the absurd law. Ruggle's, a new pizza parlor in the Square, just last week lost its bid for a liquor license, after two churches sent in their objections to the Cambridge License Commission...
...organizational involvement in planning the conference. Now Ms. Wharton can think what she wants about DSA or its members, but it is irresponsible for her to imply that we hide our identity or unfairly influence other organizations. Anyone familiar with DSA knows that such a claim is absurd--DSA members have been involved in the large majority of left-of-center political activities on this campus over the last five years, yet neither we nor the organizations we have been involved with have ever before been subject to such an accusation...