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...what he has long desired: the freedom to pursue monetary policies without particular concern for full-employment policies. Currently, the Fed's directive -- in force since 1978 -- requires the central bank to pursue the aim of maximum employment, stable prices and moderate, long-term interest rates. But Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla.), future chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, said today that he would "seek to remove all aspects of employment and economic control from the Fed's mandates." The Economic Strategy Institute, a liberal think tank, called the proposal a serious mistake.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
...This is a step in the right direction, but it still contemplates payments by Harvard to MIT, and we consider it to be an inappropriate level of involvement," says Robert W. Mack '71, a member of the Committee to End Discrimination by Harvard...
...Fowler -- the savvy South Carolina committeeman appears unthreatening to turf-conscious White House officials; Mike Synar -- the defeated Oklahoma Congressman is aggressive, but can he raise money?; Kathleen Brown -- a proven fund raiser, but California Democrats don't want to reward her for losing their shot at the statehouse; Mack McLarty -- Clinton's kindergarten chum was too nice for the White House. Would the cutthroat D.N.C. be a better...
...beginning there was Mack Sennett and he created the Keystone Kops. And he said let there be slapstick, and there was slapstick, which was good then, but seems dated now. And Sennett begat Buster Keaton, who did physical comedy better than anyone ever did, with the exception of Harold Lloyd, and whose works are still fine (see "The General," "The Navigator" and "700 Brides"). And Sennett also begat Chaplin, who learned from him but went well beyond to become the finest comic artist ever, the Little Tramp who mixed laughter and tears. And Chaplin created "City Lights" and "The Gold...
Members from the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association were among those in attendance, claiming to be the aliens who kidnapped John Mack, a no-show at the ceremony. Mack, who is a professor of psychiatry at the Medical School, is notorious for his study on the victims of alien abduction...