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...This brush with mortality in middle age provides Harp with a certain amount of momentum. The deaths of family members lead to a search for his ancestral roots in Ireland and an application for an Irish passport. His motives are mixed: "The fact is I wanted an Irish passport for the simple reason that I was eligible for one. Trying to get one would both add structure to my journey and force me into that examination of my Irish background that I had always so rigorously rejected...
...where the curriculum will be heavily weighted in favor of discipline and party ideology. Said an angry teacher: "The government probably thinks it can change the minds of young people in this manner so that they will avoid being troublemakers in the future." Some face a particularly grueling ideological brush-up. The State Education Commission has ruled that all graduates since 1985 must spend a year working in the countryside or in a factory...
...drug possession and fined for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. "I thought it was probably the end of my career," he says. But out of the scandal and distortions he salvaged a memorable song, Dirty Laundry, which could have just as neatly applied to his next brush with notoriety, as the host of the New Year's party at which Donna Rice met Gary Hart...
...Each ROTC student has his or her own opinion of the events of the last few days. As members of an open, reflective university community, all faculty, students and staff have a responsibility to avoid stereotyping. One of the most terrifying things I have seen this week is broad-brush categorization of both student activists and students enrolled in ROTC programs. That should stop right...
...even a real beginning? In theory, this broad-brush budget outline would comply with the Gramm-Rudman statutory requirement by reducing the deficit to $108 billion in 1990. A more realistic estimate puts the budgetary red ink at close to $130 billion. But numbers cannot convey the political timidity of the President and Congress in stubbornly holding the line against a tax hike, protecting most entitlements and refusing to make more than token trims in domestic and defense outlays. The Rose Garden agreement, in short, has spawned a Sixteen Tons budget that, to paraphrase the 1950s Tennessee Ernie Ford...