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Professor Charles Moskos of Northwestern University, author of a forthcoming book on national service, advocates tying a voluntary program to educational loans and grants as a way of attracting a cross section of American youth. His plan would deny federal aid to college-age students who have not performed a year of national service. Moskos admits this would create a loophole for wealthy students, who can afford college without any assistance, but he would willingly agree to a solution proposed by Columnist William Buckley: getting the U.S.'s top colleges to require that students spend a year in national service...
...national product is expanding at a respectable 2.5% annual rate. The goal of the slimming exercise, then, is not merely to compensate for hard times -- though a quick fix for short-term profits is always welcome -- but to have a permanent effect. Says Alfred Rappaport, an accounting professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management: "Restructuring will be a way of life for a long, long time." Reason: the forces that prompted the movement are still growing in power and momentum...
Walsh advocated building a new 100-bed shelternear Fresh Pond in northwestern Cambridge.However, Healy and several of the homelessadvocates said that such a shelter would beremote, expensive and more conducive to"warehousing" than genuine care.CrimsonGeorge H. OrtizMayor WALTER SULLIVAN presides over the citycouncil meeting yesterday...
...upbeat "born in America" theme, would be "both inappropriate and of diminished effectiveness" in the context of the program. ABC is trying to sell the time elsewhere, but will force Chrysler to make up the difference for any lost ad revenue. Two other advertisers, General Foods Corp. and Northwestern Mutual ! Life Insurance Co., have said they will keep their ads in the show. But commercial time is not yet sold out, and industry sources say ABC is being forced to cut prices from an original $175,000 per 30-second spot...
Wills is a onetime Jesuit seminarian with a Ph.D. in classics from Yale who now teaches American history at Northwestern. In Nixon Agonistes (1970), he tracked a man contending for a lifetime with self-destructive impulses. With Reagan, he finds a subject wholly at peace with his past. Whatever is unpleasant is simply ignored, forgotten or invented. Reagan, for example, fondly remembers his Illinois childhood as "one of those rare Huck Finn-Tom Sawyer idylls." Wills, reared in the Midwest himself, knows the dark side of Twainiana, and he finds it in Tampico, Ill., one month after the Reagan family...