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Last year, Swedish Prime minister Olaf Palme lectured at Harvard, but declined to accept his $5000 honorarium. Four months later his son received a scholarship at the Kennedy School for approximately $5000. This seemingly obscure data caused a major furor in Sweden this summer as members of the Swedish news media charged the Prime Minister had committed tax fraud by backhandedly trying to secure the scholarship for his son. Opponents of Palme charged that by refusing a highly taxable fee for the speech, he intended to defer the money for a tax-free study grant for his son. Both Palme...
...American folk song Captain Olaf Kaldefoss does not have a mule to pull his boat through the Erie Canal. He has a pair of 25-year-old diesel engines, one of which has just been overhauled. But he is confident that they can move his craft, the 256-ft. M.V. Day Peckinpaugh, through the canal at a stately, steady speed of 8 m.p.h., and so is the ship's engineer, a compact, muscular fellow named Dan Sauvey. So, with the sun just clearing the horizon and beginning to burn off the mist shrouding the upstate New York city...
Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme now lives in a Stockholm apartment where Slssela Bok's parents used to reside...
...University of California at Berkeley. "It doesn't deserve the headlines it's been getting. A peanut-butter sandwich is more of a risk." For state and federal regulators, the real question is what level of risk is acceptable. "Any amount is a risk," says Olaf Leifson, environmental monitoring chief for the California department of food and agriculture. "It's how much society wants to tolerate." Though federal law technically bans any carcinogen in food, in practice the Government allows small levels if the cost of eliminating the cancer-causing substance is too high. The difficulty...
Among national liberal arts colleges, Amherst was ranked number one, while Bucknell and St. Olaf tied for the top listing among regional liberal arts colleges Washington and Lee, and Willamette University in Oregon were ranked the best "comprehensive universities...