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...laws from hell. The requirement that immigrants have U.S. working papers is just part of the problem. The real burden for people hiring anyone, from nannies and baby-sitters to once-a-week household help, for more than $50 in a three-month period is the taxes and the blizzard of paperwork that also come through the door. So stringent are the legal requirements that the Internal Revenue Service estimates that no more than one-quarter of American families with household help bother to obey the law -- and that assessment is probably generous...
Fifteen years have passed since the Blizzard of '78, when students used the stone slabs flanking Widener as ski jumps and food service workers remained snowbound in the Union for three days; when the snow was so deep that even the ghosts were driven from the Yard...
Young says she has returned after every snowfall except for the Blizzard of '78, when drifts were so deep they prevented her return...
Young has fond memories of the beauty and silence that carried across the city after the Blizzard of '78. "It made us feel very dependent on nature's willingness to keep us here," he says...
Arguments for quick issuance: they would get the Clinton presidency off to a fast start and please supporters whom Clinton will need for the bruising battles ahead on broader policy. Arguments against: a blizzard of such orders would convey an impression that Clinton is more intent on playing to special interests than on addressing the larger concerns of the people, and it would raise doubt about whether he really is a "new kind of Democrat." Some, notably the order on gays in the military, could ignite loud fights that would use up political capital the President should conserve for bigger...