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Attempts to stiffen requirements for older drivers can collide with other concerns. Many auto-insurance companies offer discount rates to drivers over 65 because they tend to drive less frequently and to avoid hazardous situations like rush-hour traffic and bad weather. Another issue is compassion: depriving many senior citizens of their licenses would amount to robbing them of their independence. "The use of a car is particularly important to older citizens," says Florida Congressman Claude Pepper, 88. "It's a vital link to the outside world...
Intelligence officials feared that exposure of intercepted messages could tip off a hostile power that its communications channels had been penetrated. Though Walsh promised to avoid unneeded exposure of secrets during the trial, there was no way he could ensure that North would do the same. The New York Times reported last week that on Dec. 21 a high-ranking review board, which included Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, Secretary of State George Shultz, CIA Director William Webster and National Security Adviser Colin Powell, refused to release key classified documents covered by Gesell's order even though Walsh had warned...
This draft plan would, according to a Republican insider, "let Bush stake out the high ground on the deficit issue," and at low political cost. The new President could claim to have fulfilled his campaign pledge to meet the deficit-cutting targets without new taxes, but avoid the need to identify specific programs for the budget ax. That is precisely why key Democrats like Mitchell and House Budget Committee Chairman Leon Panetta dismiss the vague outline as a political ploy. Last week even some Republican officials urged Darman and Bush to go a half-step further and list "broad proposals...
...many upperclassmen are run over en route from the River Houses. But I would think someone there would notice that, with all the concessions HRE promises to meet such worries, the hotel will hardly be an attractive, money-earning one. Harvard promises a "moderately priced" hotel to avoid further yuppification, a small one to dodge traffic and transiency problems, one with no public services in order to keep crowds away, and one with a Graham Gund-supplied designer label to keep architecture buffs quiet. First, who is a cheap hotel without a restaurant or view going to attract? Second...
EACH of these incidents alone is forgivable, perhaps even explainable, but taken together they show a disgraceful record and a mayor who is a national embarrassment. Perhaps Barry will avoid indictment again and claim complete vindication. But even the remote possibility that all the incidents have been blown out of proportion by the media does not excuse his laziness, his indifference to propriety and his poor political appointments...