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...President, with the help from internationalists in both parties, has made the United States the world's driving force for peace," Christopher told an overflow audience in the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum...
...going to eat right." The truth, though, is that we don't want to eat right. What we want is to eat whatever we feel like, in whatever quantity we want, without gaining weight or clogging up our arteries. And food producers are delighted to cooperate: supermarket shelves overflow with diet soda, sugar-free candy and, in recent years, fat-free cookies, crackers and snacks of all descriptions. Some of them may taste like chemical-flavored cardboard, but for millions of diet-conscious consumers, they're better than practicing self-control...
Current Republican legislation will curtail regulatory tyranny. Not only will the EPA's plans to make water cleaner be halted, but the EPA will be forbidden from enforcing current regulations regarding storm water runoff, sewage overflow and toxic dumping. Hundreds of millions of dollars that the EPA provides to assist states in paying for water and sewage treatment plants will be eliminated. The EPA's influence in curbing radon in drinking water and cancer-causing substances in food will be eviscerated. Guidelines and programs to decrease air pollution will be scrapped or reduced in funding. Even the ban on chlorofluorocarbons...
...University should have foreseen that the reduced area would be a problem and addressed it as such. Although Dean Flatley has proposed augmenting the shuttle bus schedule to the Quad during lunch hours, we must all wonder about the repercussions of no inter-house in the Union. Will additional overflow from distant houses force interhouse restrictions in traditionally welcoming houses such as Leverett and Winthrop...
Dean Dingman also mentions that his office maintains overflow housing in Apley Court to ease overcrowding. Finally, he says that the superintendent of each House should be a "resource" to students in terms of where to find construction materials and how to build their partitions...