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Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, who issued the famous pronouncement that "violence is as American as cherry pie" when he was known as H. Rap Brown, finds it easy to spread the blame. "Racism is the state religion," says Amin, now the operator of a small dry-goods store in Atlanta. "Racism is to America what Catholicism is to the Vatican. Racism is the religion, and violence is its liturgy to carry it out." More thoughtful observers are less dogmatic. "What causes racism is the most researched question in all of American social science in 80 years," says Thomas Pettigrew...
While all other areas scramble for a piece of the college skiing pie, it's still Killington that has the largest portion. More than 6000 students have spent one of the last four weeks at Killington's annual skifest. Sponsored by Miller Lite and Chevrolet, the festival has everything from skier obstacle course races to '60s and '70s revival parties. And, whether or not there's anything from the '70s that deserves to be revived, the kids seem to have fun, to drink a lot of beer and to ski a little on the side...
...revenues grew to a record $221 billion in fiscal 1986. This week, as President Reagan sends Congress his 1988 budget, the annual battle over the deficit gets under way. Behind the barrage of statistics and beyond the parade of partisan interest groups fighting for bigger shares of the federal pie, the issue at stake is, quite simply, the well-being of the U.S. economy. The outcome of the budgetary wrangles could have a profound effect on taxes and take-home pay, interest rates and the cost of a house, the health of the stock market and the value...
Like clean air and water, a reduced budget deficit is a public good: everyone benefits from it. At the same time, though, it is in each person's private interest to fight to defend his particular piece of the Government spending pie. Ultimately, America's prosperity will depend on whether its leaders have the courage to put the public good above private interests...
...Government officials charged with holding down deficit spending, this all sounds like a familiar cry for a piece of the federal pie. Though Bowen argues that his plan will be self-financing, the Reagan budget cutters are concerned that Congress may start adding benefits to the basic formula. They also remember the original estimates that Government payments for kidney dialysis would cost only a couple of hundred million dollars; actual payments have grown to $2 billion...