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...rear end, shoot him with arrows and tie him to a stake. Classic Walt Disney comedy, right? Guess again. In the view of the National Coalition on Television Violence, it is an example of the "quite troubling" level of violence on cable's year-old Disney Channel. After monitoring the channel for two weeks, the watchdog organization found an average of nine violent acts an hour on real-life programming and 18 an hour on cartoons, nearly as high as on the three networks. Among the offenses: space battles in the Disney film The Black Hole, swordplay...
...great cause, but we're not supposed to channel all of our funds to one group," said Ethan H. Cohen '86, co-chair of the council's Finance Committee, which makes recommendations on all grant proposals...
...that the CBO figures are merely projections based on standard economic models and do not take into account the impact that tax cuts will have on the investment strategies of the wealthy. With tax rates reduced, the supply-siders say, the rich will move away from tax shelters and channel more of their money into conventional investments. As a result, the taxable income of the wealthy should rise, and they may wind up paying more to Uncle Sam than they did before tax rates were slashed. Says Gilder: "This is the most confident short-term prediction of supply-side economics...
...wounded in an assassination attempt. The principal villains of the piece are Edwin Meese, the longtime Reagan aide who has served as Counsellor to the President and is now Reagan's nominee for Attorney General; James Baker and Michael Deaver, who together manage the White House staff and channel advice to the President; and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. While Haig starkly portrays the President's men as amateurs in foreign policy who care only about its short-term domestic political implications, he praises Ronald Reagan for sound instincts, and his criticism of the President is, for the most part...
SOME PERSONS try to avoid trendiness by relying entirely on their wardrobes to project distinctiveness Ironically, though, outstanding or outlandish fashions usually end up wearing their owners. The majority of showy dressers look more like inhabitors than creators of style, because they channel all their efforts at self-improvement into surface area: Fashion becomes a questionable vehicle for self-expression when it is wrapped around a hollow tube...