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...hearings--from September to November--has left the GSD in a state of flux. At a time when the School is torn by internal conflict and embarrassed by an external barrage of criticism, the slow settlement of an issue central to the School's problems can serve only to incur further damage...
Some Kind of Nut. Why, he ruminates, did his physician-father have him circumcised? "Did this represent an unconscious attack by my father on my Oedipus complex? Was he aware of the future decreased pleasure the operation would incur, and did this represent hatred of me? Did he, with my mother's consent, subconsciously want me castrated?" Philosophically, Harnes concludes that "what was done was done." Anyway, he notes, neither plastic surgery nor prosthetic technology can alter matters where he is concerned...
...federal truth-in-lending law. On Master Charge bills, the report noted, Citibank gives special prominence to the minimum amount due for any given month, leaving the rest subject to interest charges. If the customer paid the amount of total charges, which is printed less conspicuously, he would incur no interest charge. As a result, the investigators contended, cardholders are often lured into paying credit charges that they might avoid. Citibank denies the charge without explanation...
...concerns of their voters, to the shoddy tug-and-pull of the popular political process, than to the arduous twists and turns of great power relationships. The bureaucracy, too, was an enemy: no imagination, no flair, no speed or adaptability, little grasp of the sacrifices and risks one must incur if one were to maintain a flexible policy. And as for popular opinion, Kissinger's interest lay not in how the votes would be cast today, but in how the Executive structure would be affected by domestic reactions to the policy when that policy had finally run its course five...
Beginning in July, Vermont youths will be able at 18 to vote in all elections, buy any alcoholic beverage, marry without parental consent, sign legal contracts, incur debts (and be held accountable for them), inherit estates and be treated as adults by the courts. All these privileges were hitherto reserved for those who had reached the age of 21. The bill was introduced by Vermont's youngest legislator, 24-year-old Representative Kenneth Parker (who in the last election defeated a man 50 years older), and was signed into law by the nation's oldest Governor, Deane...