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...step in the right direction might be centralizing regional taxation authority in a democratic body with decidedly disproportional representation, with center dwellers counting more. It would force the suburbanites to fish or cut bait. They will either head all the way to the sticks or return to the Big City, if only to get their fraction of a vote back. (Step 1: A Miracle Happens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Escape | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...There are a number of side effects attributed to marijuana that are at best speculative," Porter says. "Drugs have been used by many prominent individuals throught history. Dylan Thomas: the guy drank like a fish. But who's to say he could've written the poetry he did if he hadn...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Legalize It, Don't Criticize It | 9/28/1991 | See Source »

...praise the worthy (mis?)- demeanor of the Modern Language Association, of Stanley Fish and Frederick Jameson, and let us revel in their... La dee da... standards of criticism...

Author: By Bader A. El-jeaan, | Title: Another World | 9/25/1991 | See Source »

...more than $10 million through the simple expedient of buying and selling stock with the help of inside tips. Arrested in 1986 and jailed for 17 months in a minimum-security prison, he led prosecutors to arbitrager Ivan Boesky, who, in turn, helped them reel in the biggest fish of all -- junk-bond king Michael Milken. Now permanently barred from the securities industry, Levine, 39, makes his living as a consultant to companies engaged in mergers and other deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Trades | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...argue that Tlingit culture before the coming of white men was noble (arguing is not his style), but clearly it was strong and coherent. Now in Angoon, after successive incursions by Russian fishermen, the Navy, Stateside Presbyterian missionaries of ineffable arrogance, and present-day loggers, pickup-truck sellers and fish-and-game regulators, it is weak and probably dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stone On Stone | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

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