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YESTERDAY, a woman from the Alumni Office called to remind me to pick up an application for Senior Class Marshal. I told her that there must be some kind of mistake, that I had never led a parade, had no flaming-baton-twirling abilities whatsoever and would feel ridiculous wearing one of those big white hats with the gold chinstrap anyway...
...there's no mistake. It says right here in your folder that you're someone everyone knows casually but nobody really likes much, only for some reason everyone assumes everybody else really does like you a lot. You're exactly what we're looking for in a Marshal. In fact, you were admitted to the College solely on the expectation that you would someday be elected to this position...
...nose and the funny hair." In fact, the inmates wear their own clothes and are routinely warned to use sunscreen to protect themselves from the hot summer sun. Meals are served at picnic tables, portable toilets are set up near the tent, and prisoners sleep on military cots. Says Marshal Carr, serving a sentence for driving under the influence: "It's fun really. I use it to catch up on my sleep and get away from my old lady...
...middle class or the poor. Bush's goal of reducing the capital-gains levy is another inviting target. The Democratic Leadership Council has concocted a "tax fairness index" showing that the wealthy have benefited most from tax changes of the '80s. Last week Mario Cuomo visited Washington to marshal opposition to a Republican attempt to raise federal revenue by limiting the deductibility of state and local income taxes. Raise rates on those making $200,000 and more, Cuomo demanded. "Don't come to us, and take it out of the pockets of children...
Securities lobbyists, in a desperate attempt to marshal opponents on Capitol Hill, immediately labeled the transfer levy a "tax on savings." Other critics note that Brady's own commission pointed out that a similar plan proposed by lawmakers in October 1987 helped trigger the crash...