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...arcane parlance of the Albany legislature, a lulu is a tax-free $1,000 allowance that each legislator draws "in lieu of" expense funds, in addition to his $10,000 annual salary. A double lulu presumably would be $2,000. But a committee chairmanship had also been offered, Wagner said, and as every New York legislator knows, some chairmanships entitle the holder to extra lulus. In this case, according to Wagner, the double lulu amounted...
...recent article entitled "The Failure of the Mississippi Project" should have been more appropriately entitled, "The Failure of Mississippi". It represented a neat sleight of hand, putting Mississippi on the defensive in lieu of their usual offensive position. I must confess that my vision was blurred as I read about the "misunderstood (and) unjustly accused" state of Mississippi. Have the overt acts of violence committed by the citizens of this state been completely eclipsed by the gross injustices that have been done to Mississippians? Does the fault lie in others who haven't taken the time to inform themselves...
...make art about art. In his beach house on Edisto Island, S.C., and his Riverside Drive penthouse in Manhattan, Johns surrounds himself with art works of his friends, from Marcel Duchamp's Dada gimcracks to Andy Warhol's soup boxes, which he uses in lieu of extra furniture. He is a chess player and keeps a library substantial in such stiff favorite reading as Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus-Logicos Philosophi-cus. Johns also keeps on hand an inexhaustible supply of beer, which, in a way, has crept into his work...
Although it is the first task of General Education to give a student tools to structure his thought in the four basic divisions, there are two main reasons which justify requiring a student to take an upper level course in lieu of a lower level offering. First, although a well-prepared student may already have covered some of the content of a lower level course which would thus bore him, he has probably not been exposed to the selective Gen Ed approach of relating disciplines within that field of knowledge. This experience would be stimulating in an upper level...
...commissioned a second lieu tenant of infantry in 1947, sent to metropolitan France for advanced training, and after his return given command of Viet Nam's first native airborne battalion in 1950. With the French engaged in their war against the Communist Viet Minh, Khanh led his paratroopers in a jump onto the Hoabinh battlefield of North Viet Nam, scene of a French defeat that was only slightly less disastrous than Dienbienphu, carried out a valiant rearguard action covering the French retreat. Khanh finished the war, in which he was wounded (he still likes to pull up his shirt...