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...boosts and limits on future benefit increases that might actually yield the money. As all politicians (including the four Senators and three Congressmen who serve on the commission) know too well, any effective measures will raise howls of anguish from the young who pay the taxes, the elderly who dread any limit on benefits, or both. As expected, the commission reached no agreement last week. It has until Dec. 31 to submit its recommendations, and then it may file majority and minority reports...
...banal red light plays over them; in the middle is a table, perhaps a sacrificial altar, and the whole cave is strewn with what seem to be mummified joints of meat. These are not identifiably human; if anything, they resemble small legs of lamb. But they suggest the dread cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus in the Odyssey, strewn with fragments of unspeakable meals. The title is The Destruction of the Father...
...aspect of the training which the astronauts both enjoy and dread is floating aboard a specially padded plane that is flown in parabolic curves to simulate weightlessness. The astronauts have nicknamed the plane the "Vomit Comet," evidently for good reason...
...dinner - in his own home, the chicken sent in from Colonel Sanders'. For $150 the Senator and his wife dined with the donors, and a tape of the speech was played at a level that was mercifully inaudible. Chafee raked in an astonishing $6,000 through the grateful dread...
...healthier than it is today in Philadelphia and would be in Boston if the Herald shut down. The loss a city suffers when it becomes a one-newspaper town cannot be expressed too often. Nothing improves an editor's diligence and a reporter's aggressiveness more than the eternal dread of being scooped. That fear abates, to be sure, when the competition is a scandal-monger or a cult mouthpiece. But if competition vanishes altogether, the surviving newspaper is left with all the incentive to excel of a student in a one-on-one course graded on a curve...