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...M.I.T. team has traditionally been dismissed as weak. In the past few years though, the Engineers have put up more of a flight than expected. As coach Jack Barnaby said after close matches last year, "The same thing happens every year. We're just too overconfident...
Harvard has had great success against M.I.T. in the past, including an 18-1 thumping last year, but coach Bruce Munro yesterday voiced caution. "M.I.T. has a better team than usual, and in our decimated condition, we're expecting to have trouble," Munro said...
...reaction to the forcible entry of students into last month's closed SFAC meeting. "In response to the clear threat made by SDS spokesmen when they moved into the meeting, it seemed appropriate that the Faculty should make clear that its failure to take action in the past must not be taken as a precedent for the future," Chalmers said. He called the motion "a warning, not a threat...
...will not be easy. Tax exemptions and exclusions have seldom been repealed. Instead, in the past 50 years, Congress has opened myriad new tax shelters to accommodate taxpayers who feel aggrieved by somebody else's privilege. An unfortunate result is mind-numbing complexity: the present Revenue Code (1,200 pages) runs longer than War and Peace. Albert Einstein called the federal income tax "the hardest thing in the world to understand." Contemplating his own return, he remarked: "This is too difficult for a mathematician, It takes a philosopher...
...have to foot the bill for the costly roads, water and sewer lines that make land richly salable. In addition to encouraging the growth of "slurbs"-half-city, half-country belts with the worst features of both - the process has driven up costs of homesites by 68% in the past eight years, forcing many families out of the market. "Today's property tax," says Robert Hutchins, president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, "promotes almost every unsound public policy imaginable...