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...soon enough for FBI agents. Even top officials on the agency's seventh floor have given Sessions the freeze-out. "It's so cold up there you can hang meat," said one agent. He's no help outside the building either, alumni agents contend. Says former senior bureau official Tom Kelley: "He is dragging down the reputation of the organization every day he stays there." You wouldn't have to be an FBI agent to get the hint...
Some academics, including Harvard's own Professor Stephen J. Gould, contend that it's worth putting a nickel into the SETI slot machine even if the odds are immense. There might be a huge payoff, but this is a billion dollar-nickel in times when the nation can least afford...
BACK TO THE G.P. Clinton's planners contend, correctly, that the medical profession is training far too many high-priced specialists; they constitute 88% of all doctors nationally. Kentucky is one state mulling ways to turn more doctors back to general practice. Benny Ray Bailey, chairman of the state senate committee on health and welfare, advocates tuition waivers and stipends for students going into primary-care medicine, if they agree to practice for a while in doctor-short rural areas. Bailey likens the current system to "training all the horses in the world to run a mile and a quarter...
...their sentiments entirely xenophobic. Many contend that at a time of slow job growth and pinched budgets for social services, the country simply cannot accommodate a flood of the world's "homeless, tempest-tost." Bette Hammond, spokeswoman for a California group calling itself STOP IT -- for Stop the Out-of-Control Problems of Immigration Today -- suggests a rewrite of Lazarus: "If the Statue of Liberty could speak, she would say, 'Many of my people are jobless and homeless. My natural resources are fast disappearing from overcrowding and pollution, while my cities are full of crime. My domestic tranquillity...
...should do the examining? While not everybody at 60 JFK agrees on the question of special treatment for Ivy athletes, they do seem to agree on the role of The Crimson: a student newspaper, they contend, should seek more to promote school spirit and interest than division and debate...