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Government concentrator Michael F. Melcher '85-'86 is trying to be just that type of horrible person. He hopes to turn in his thesis in January so that he can get a job second semester...
Phillips Brooks House supports the program because "the chance of really accomplishing something [in the English as a Second Language program] is far greater than in many refugee programs," said Michael Melcher '86, co-chairman of the Refugee Committee. He added that classroom attendance has been "very good" and that 80 per cent of students who start the program finish...
...also authored two books, "Secrets on the Ethics of Concreatment and Revelation" in 1982 and "Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life," the 1978 winner of the Melcher and George Orwell Awards from the national Council of Teachers of English...
...first was an effort, supported by the powerful banking lobby, to attach an amendment to the Social Security bill that would delay by six months a requirement that banks withhold taxes on dividends and interest. This proposal, advanced by Democratic Senator John Melcher of Montana, was a modified version of an effort to repeal the withholding requirement outright. The week before, Wisconsin's Republican Senator Robert W. Kasten tacked the repeal proviso on to the Senate's $5.1 billion jobs bill and got trounced...
...congressional leaders, President Reagan also lashed out. "I've had it up to here with the bankers," he declared, throwing his glasses on the table. "They're sitting on their keisters when they should be lowering interest rates." The outbursts had their effect. The Senate dumped Melcher's amendment with a deft procedural gambit...