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...York City's health commissioner has his way, there will soon be a mug shot on file of every American pit bullterrier in the Big Apple. Hoping to rid New York of a canine breed favored by dope dealers because of its alleged propensity to clamp its powerful jaws on humans, Commissioner Stephen Joseph has proposed to the city's board of health that pit bull owners be required to have their dogs tattooed, muzzled in public, insured for a minimum liability of $100,000 and, yes, photographed for city records. If Joseph's proposal becomes part of the city...
...where has the council been while Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and the house masters have been tightening the clamp on alcohol and Harvard's mediocre social life? Why did the group have nothing to say during the past few weeks as some house masters imposed limits on the number of guests students could put up in the rooms they...
...draw people out of excessive self-interest, their existence a statement of need. A dog's eyes search your face for a mystery as deep as God, asking nothing and everything, the way that music operates. He hopes that you always love music, even the noisy boredom you clamp to your ears these days, while he harbors the prayer that in later years will follow Vivaldi and Bix Beiderbecke. If you learn to love jazz, you will have a perpetual source of joy at the ready. Jazz is serious joy, much like yourself...
...City is afraid that the spreading mess of Guinness will force the Conservatives to clamp down on the number of mergers, which has gone up 160% in the past three years. Snaps Liberal Party Leader David Steel: "This endless shuffling about of assets has done nothing to improve the basic efficiency and capacity of British manufacturing." Already, takeover fever has abated. "There are no megabids running at all," says Kenneth Morton, an executive director with the Hill Samuel Group. "There's no doubt that people's attitudes have changed." Last month BTR, one of Britain's most aggressive raiders, backed...
...still, she said, the nature of the punishment Brown gives the students is important. "There's been a trend in university policy. The university is trying to clamp down on student activism," she said. "Last night's [hearing] was just another example of that...