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...military spending, today. The simple realities of a domestic economy, not to mention other valid claims on government resources, rule out such a budget. It's naive, however, for anyone--anti-draft activist or Pentagon computer--to assume that such a huge war would not escalate up the nuclear ladder, from conventional warfare to "limited nuclear war" to Armageddon. If the planning to fight this conventional war in Europe means that the U.S. has given up the idea of nuclear deterrence altogether, then our military policy needs total rethinking, not just the cosmetics of draft registration...
...strong Crimson performance shows the depth that has developed over the course of the year. Aside from a handful of tough confrontations, the Crimson's most heated competition has come from its own ranks, in intra-squad ladder challenges...
...story. Economist Walter Williams claims that the rising minimum wage almost guarantees maximum unemployment for the young and unskilled. Because of the unearned rise in hourly wages, how many people age 14 to 17 are out of a job? We've cut the bottom rung off the economic ladder...
...years ago. Indeed, the spirit of Russian constructivism-spare, idealizing, but wedded to primary forms and to the nature of industrial material-presides over Milow's work, lending it a subtle dignity. Tim Head's photo projections are studies in uncertainty. Images of ordinary things-a ladder, a bucket, a brick wall -are projected over arrangements of real objects, and the result is a brilliant melee of impressions, in which image and reality can hardly be told apart...
...officials at the federal prison at Lompoc, Calif, 170 miles north of Los Angeles, had no idea how cleverly he had diagnosed their security system. Shortly after sunset one day last week, the prisoner approached the ten-foot chain-link fence with a pair of wire cutters, a crude ladder he had fashioned and an odd device made of a toothbrush taped to one end of a broom handle. Knowing that any sudden movement of the fence would set off an electric alarm, he propped the ladder near a gatepost for added support. He shinnied up and, with his hand...