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MARGARET CARLSON, our Washington Columnist, works in a city where everyone's private life, especially the President's, is much too public these days. We were particularly pleased to receive her latest contribution, part of our cover package, as Carlson wrote it wearing a neck brace, a souvenir from a bruising encounter she had with a car while crossing the street last week. (No, the driver was not an angry Congressman.) "Bad timing on my part," Carlson says. "If you're going to get run over, you should find a week when the President's not being impeached...
...latest statistics from the Joint Committee on Taxation confirm what has been a long and disturbing trend. "The burden on the middle class has always been outsize," says TIME columnist Daniel Kadlec. "The last tax reform law simply did not include enough people." While it's good that low-income households are benefiting from tax breaks, Congress has failed to consider that married cops and schoolteachers, in households where both spouses work, can now jointly earn $100,000 a year. "But in big cities like New York or Chicago, that hardly makes them rich," says Kadlec...
...letter shows he is not aware of the vibrant religious life...that does go on here on campus," said Lowell House resident Rustin C. "Rusty" Silverstein '99, who is also a Crimson columnist...
Washington Post columnist Juan Williams saidHigginbotham's concern for the current impeachmentproceedings affected his entire demeanor. Williamssaid Higginbotham told him that children inpoverty were far more important to our nation thanimpeachment...
...Thompson, a crucial distinction will account for the difference: "The general is subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Commander in Chief is not." In our constitutional system, says Thompson, "we have a different way to deal with the President, as we probably should." TIME Washington columnist Margaret Carlson agrees. "There is only one President but thousands of soldiers," she says. One is not as easily dispensable as the other. "Moreover," she adds, "the military is an authoritative institution that relies upon total obedience and discipline." The presidency is a unique political institution that operates...