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...democratic in his choice of victims. He has blasted all three of the city's major dailies for editorializing in favor of equal opportunity but compiling poor minority-hiring records themselves, and for red-lining their newspaper vending machine out of nonwhite neighborhoods. Nor does he hesitate to bite the CBS hand that feeds him. He has accused the Tribune's TV critic of being soft on the CBS-TV station; he has twitted his network's leading local anchorman for commentaries distinguished only by "implication and innuendo." The Sun-Times stopped accepting massage parlor ads after...
...guzzler tax" in just about the form the President first presented it. Under this law, which would take effect next fall, cars delivering less than 15 m.p.g. will cost an extra $200; those getting less than 14 m.p.g. will be taxed $300. If the mileage is below 13, the bite will be $550. Tax levels will steadily rise, and by 1985 cars doing less than 12.5 will be taxed a whopping $3,850. In that year, the levy is ex pected to save...
...determinate sentences. Noting that many judges hand out tough sentences but do not expect them to be fully served, the University of Chicago's Franklin Zimring argues that parole serves a humane function "in a system that seems addicted to barking louder than it really wants to bite." Thus the firm-sentences movement could turn out to be short-lived. Harvard's Alan Dershowitz, for one, has predicted that after a period of legislative intrusion into sentencing, complaints will be voiced about excessive conformity and rigidity, "and the cycle will turn once again...
...from Florida to California. Oklahoma's Democratic Representative James R. Jones finds signals of desperation among small businessmen and wage earners. The burdens of state and local taxes are at the breaking point, they say. Then from Washington comes the message of immense increases in the Social Security bite and the series of proposed energy taxes that would reach right back into the pocketbooks of middle-class Americans and business people. There are still echoes of Jimmy Carter's campaign promises to push for major tax reform, and that could wipe out many of the small harbors...
WHEN SOME EX-LINEBACKER comes up to you in Tommy's Lunch at three in the morning and demands a bite of your cheese steak do you tell him, in no uncertain terms, "With or without mustard?" You've got lots of company if you're the kind of person who walks away from a fight. Most of us hum along with Elton but stay clear of Father's on a Saturday night. So maybe if a townie leans out his car window to inquire, "Move it, ya Hahvahd queah!" you pretend not to notice. But you move it--silently...