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Hence I have a modest proposal to end--at least for the time being--the space shortage: convert the studies into shelf space. When the University finds a more long-term solution--such as an expansion of Pusey or the construction of a new library, it can build a lot of nice new faculty offices as part of the plan. In the meantime, no one will have to be turned out in the street. It's a crazy idea, but it just might work...
Most American police are decent men and women doing honorable service. It is partly for that reason that the transformation from group to mob, as in Los Angeles, is hard to understand. But the dangerous work that they do, for modest salaries, is also brutalizing. The American homicide rate has jumped from 5 per 100,000 population in 1960 to 9 per 100,000 in 1989. In big cities two-thirds of felony defendants have been arrested before, and about half of them had at least one prior conviction. Drug gangs are often armed with automatic weapons more lethal than...
Saddam is not the only one worried about the Kurds; the allies, who, by enfeebling Saddam, made the Kurdish victories possible, are concerned too. The Kurdish leadership professes a modest aim -- autonomy within a democratic Iraq. But suspicions run deep that the real agenda is, as it has been in the past, independence, a break from Baghdad clean and neat. That is an outcome $ none of the allies desire. For one thing, they do not want to be held responsible for Iraq's partition. For another, the Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Iran and the Soviet Union might come down with...
...more delighted than the lone man who through persistence and intimidation practically coerced McDonald's into making the move: Omaha industrialist Philip Sokolof, 68. Besieged by the press last week in the wake of the announcement, Sokolof, a dead ringer for actor Hal Holbrook, adopted a modest pose. "This is a very great day for the American people," he declared...
...twice as many adolescent girls as boys said they were worried about gaining weight if they quit smoking. In years past, cigarette companies capitalized on such fears. Lucky Strike ads in the 1920s encouraged women to "Reach for the Lucky Strike Instead of a Sweet." Unfortunately, doctors note, even modest weight gains can loom large for women: a gain of 8 lbs., for instance, can translate into a different dress size; for men it may only mean letting the belt out a notch...