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Harvard suffered a defensive let-down toward the end of the first half and allowed the Hawks to creep back into the game. The score at the half was 40-29, and the Crimson had to enter the locker room wondering if last year's collapse would haunt the team...
Where possible, you don't tax the things you want to encourage, like investment and work, which is why we should never let the top tax bracket creep back up past 33% (it was 70% as recently as 1981). But you do tax the things you'd like to discourage, like inefficient energy consumption (and its attendant pollution), reliance on imported oil (which threatens national security and worsens the trade deficit) and tobacco (widely recognized as the nation's leading cause of preventable death...
...regime's reaction exposed its deep ambivalence about allowing political pluralism to creep into the reform program, especially any pluralism that might lead to a reborn Solidarity. Actually, Walesa and other union leaders became involved less as an overtly political force, which they ceased to be after the union was banned in 1981, than as elder statesmen. But even that presence was too much for Poland's Communist leadership. Charging that Solidarity sought only to "evoke crisis and a confrontation," Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban vowed that the regime "had not, does not and will not talk" with union leaders...
...should like to thank you. John J. Murphy's extremely clear-thinking article on Nixon (April 19). I know of no article in the national press that has so succintly put the case against allowing Nixon to creep back into our national affairs...
...Mallory, the narrator, is an Englishman working for the World Health Organization in the arid northern province of a former French colony "in the dead heart of the African continent, a land as close to nowhere as the planet could provide." The southward creep of the Sahara and the drying up of nearby Lake Kotto have driven most of the native residents away, leaving the physician with hardly anyone to treat but General Harare and his ragtag band of Marxist guerrillas. But these rebel patients do not trust Mallory, because he has conceived a scheme to drill the dry lake...