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Public-housing authorities are told to provide decent housing and then are denied the means to effect acceptable solutions [Feb. 13]. Meanwhile, social and political apathy at all levels of government and society provoke an attitude of "Don't bother us with the facts; just house the people." The result: today's public-housing enigma. Local public-housing authorities still represent the best approach to addressing housing issues. They remain the only entity in the residential field whose sole objective is the provision of shelter, not the accumulation of profit...
Another major theory predicts a diametrically opposite effect. According to the underdog theory, a large portion of the electorate, believing that victory is assured, simply don't bother to vote. Supporters of this theory also contend that because people naturally sympathize with the underdog, voters may cast their ballots out of pity for, rather than in support of, a candidate...
...work in his coffee and a stack of term papers at least twelve inches high. They had to be returned within a few hours. Anyone who watched this grader whip through several ten page papers at the rate of two to five minutes each would have wondered, "Why bother?" Like the person in your photograph this "instructor" did his work in circumstances marked by the distraction of excited talk and loud laughter and disruptive groans, punctuated by the clatter of dishes. I suppose those of us who pay $15,000 a year for a Harvard undergraduate degree can at least...
PART PARODY, PART TRIBUTE, Confidentially Yours is essentially an exploration of the director's divided feelings about the American thriller. While this dichotomy is at times interesting, for most of its two hours. Confidentially Yours is simply a thriller that does not thrill and a parody that doesn't bother to amuse you. You have to be very, very hooked on Truffaut himself to make seeing the movie worthwhile...
...when word filtered down the aisle: "He's going to answer something." No one knew what Mondale would be asked, or by whom, but they grabbed their notebooks and, grumbling and muttering, trudged back to the lobby. As it turned out, most of the reporters did not even bother to write down Mondale's remarks. Yet, as they reminded themselves, at least they had been there, just in case. That scene is typical of the life of presidential-campaign reporters, who are known, with only slight gender inaccuracy, as the boys...