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...second relevant news item of last week is Dean Knowles' announcement of a $4 million project to rebuild a tower atop Memorial Hall which burned down in 1956. "Is it not a fitting end to the century and to the [Capital] Campaign that Memorial Hall should be restored to its proper glory?" he queried. Perhaps I am alone, but I actually think that restoring Mem. Hall to its pre 1956 days could wait, at least until, for example, undergraduates are no longer needed to TF courses. Knowles' announcement illustrates quite starkly where priorities lie--in this typical case, with "glory...
...back to the future after Clinton this month sent Congress a military budget proposing to pump $6.6 billion into development of a national missile-defense shield by 2005. Forget that Democrats argued for years that such a system would never work. That was then. Now it's the newest item in their lengthening list of conservative takeovers. Defense hawks have been maddeningly one-upped by Clinton's adoption of a snazzy constellation of space-based sensors and ground-based missiles that would stand guard over all 50 states, poised to destroy a handful of incoming missiles. In time-tested Star...
...Your item on the Teamsters union and Democratic Party campaign finance [NOTEBOOK, Dec. 21] had several inaccurate references to my employment by the union. The source and amount of the fees paid to me for my work during the 1992 presidential campaign is a matter of public record. By the beginning of 1993, my fees for work during the 1992 campaign had been paid in their entirety by the campaign. I did not do any work for the Teamsters...
...reported on China's program to buy new weapons and strengthen its military [WORLD, Feb. 1]. Today's Chinese race for arms could very well be tomorrow's American race for survival. Americans are financing the military buildup in China every time we buy an item made there. Several hundred made-in-China coffeemakers could equal one AK-47. We must never underestimate the Chinese just because their military equipment may be crude. The Viet Cong's weapons were crude, and look at what happened in Vietnam. JAMES A. CARROLL Green Creek...
Compare today's system to that of the fifties, in which employees might work for one company until they retired. Indeed, Willy Loman could not work for his company's competitors or a different industry. He had to sell item Y for company X or die trying. Thus, as we, graduating seniors, exploit the investment banks and the consulting firms in the name of career opportunities, we rebel against the old, more static career models. Our job market is one of tremendous horizontal and vertical mobility; to stay too long at one place just does not make good economic sense...