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...suicide manuals help create a bias toward death...
Currently, students are limited to two tickets. This limit should be maintained and strictly enforced with bias toward none. The distribution process should be simple--a well-managed line. No sign-up sheets or tickets reserved before Tuesday at 2 p.m., when the billets will be available to the general public. Rumors of rows of seats being doled in advance to privileged friends or players' roommates serve only to embitter the most loyal fans--the ones willing to wait for endless hours outside the Harvard Hall basement for the chance to yell "S-s-sieve" one more time...
...Salvador, the first time a modern Pope has traveled to a nation in the throes of an all-out civil war. Then he moves on to Guatemala, where he will meet General Efrain Rios Montt, an eccentric born-again Protestant whose regime is accused of anti-Catholic bias as well as the murder of a large number of Indian civilians. After a day trip to Honduras, the Pope will fly from Guatemala to Haiti, making a six-hour stop in Belize. In the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, he will open the quadrennial assembly of the Latin American Bishops...
President Reagan's remark about abolishing corporate income taxes, though retracted, reveals his shallow knowledge of economics as well as his personal bias toward the rich. With the nation suffering severe unemployment, he questions the justification for taxing corporations instead of proposing a constructive jobs program. Many companies already have an excessive concentration of wealth. Without corporate income taxes, the situation would become worse...
...resisted giving to the House subcommittees that had subpoenaed them, to a Senate committee that had never requested them. The calendars, listing numerous luncheon and dinner dates with representatives of chemical companies she regulated but very few with environmental lobbyists, buttressed charges that she had a business bias. By letting the representatives pay for her meals, Lavelle may have violated agency regulations, according...