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Gramm-Rudman sets up a series of targets for reducing the federal deficit to zero by 1991. If Congress and the President cannot meet those targets, automatic cuts in about half the budget go into effect. The Comptroller General is to draw up the list of exactly how much must be cut and clarify any ambiguities about just which agencies would be affected. Synar's suit raised two questions: Can Congress lawfully delegate its power of the purse at all? And can it confer that much authority on the Comptroller General...
...truly unbelievable. Pete Rose, Julius Irving, Wayne Gretzky...the list of magnificent athletes is endless. Weekly, I am presented with the myopic American ideal of excellence: sweaty, scantily clad individuals, almost exclusively men, in various stages of exertion. Thank God for the swimsuit issue. For those of us who were consistently chosen last in grade-school kickball and who crawled through the Presidential Physical Fitness test, it is a welcome, yet brief, respite from fifty-one weeks of pornography. Michael A. Snyder...
Although the Cornell and Harvard men's hockey teams have been invited for a 7:30 p.m. rumba, scratch Cornell's Duanne Moeser, and Harvard's Chris Biotti and Allen Bourbeau from the guest list...
...NEVER POSSIBLE to acknowledge every one of the year's memorable performances, but this year's list of Academy Award nominations, released last week by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences makes one wonder if the members of the Academy have been falling asleep over their popcorn boxes for the last 12 months. The list of nominees in the four major acting categories (Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress) as well as the Best Director category is distinguished by the absence of several rather prominent names...
PERHAPS MORE SURPRISING than Ullam's exclusion from the list of Best Supporting Actress nominees is that of mainstream teen idol Michael J. Fox from the list of Best Supporting Actors for his much-touted portrayal of a contemporary teenager who goes back in time to encounter his nifty fifties parents courtesy of a souped-up DeLorean. Although Fox's contribution to Back to the Future is unlikely to go down in the annals of movie history, his approach to the quintessential teen Marty McFly was fresh and unencumbered, in sharp contrast to those featured in the large proportion...