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...George Bush will be receiving a Soviet leader who has openly warned that his country may be heading toward civil war. That specter haunts conversations with citizens of the U.S.S.R. at many levels of society and in many parts of the country, and it ought to be an urgent item on the international agenda...
...decade's worth of arguments about who has won and who has lost from changes in federal taxes and spending, one item has tended to get overlooked. It's one of the fastest-growing items on the federal books: interest on the national debt. It has more than tripled, from $52 billion in 1980 to $179 billion in 1990. It is closing in on Social Security ($222 billion) as the Government's largest transfer program...
Some editors were outraged when the American Society of Newspaper Editors asked members to post information about a survey of gay and lesbian journalists. "Will the next item on the bulletin board be for 'prostitute journalists' or 'cocaine journalists'?" mocked one. Last week, as several hundred ASNAE members arrived in Washington for their four-day annual meeting, the organization released the results of its survey. While most of the more than 200 respondents felt their employers were tolerant of gays, they reported widespread homophobia in the newsroom. They also judged their newspapers' coverage of gay-related issues to be mediocre...
...once the City Council approves the commissioner as a budget item, complete discretion over whom to appoint goes to Healy...
...council members' interest in a variable meal plan is based on various models at other colleges. One option, practiced by Dartmouth, MIT and Columbia, is the "point system," in which students have a fixed number of credits which are deducted either per item or per meal. Other schools--Boston University is one--employ a combination plan, in which students are guaranteed a certain number of meals per week and pay for the rest with an allotment of meal points...