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...change was precipitated not by a visible decline in the quality of House life but by the increasing prevalence of large blocking groups--a trend that provides strong evidence that students prefer, when given the choice, to block with a large number of people. Normally, such preferences should be respected. The only reason to break up blocking groups would be if they had adverse effects on House community. Yet such effects have not been demonstrated so convincingly that the administration should disregard the preferences students have already expressed...
...polls showed a public unmoved. Voters said they would rather use the money, if it exists, to pay down the $5.6 trillion national debt. "People are genuinely fiscally conservative in this country," says Stephen Moore, an irrepressible supply-sider from the Cato Institute. Though personally he'd prefer deep tax cuts to spur growth, he finds in his travels that "a lot of people look at this mountain of debt and say, 'Gee, we really ought to start paying off the mortgage.' And the public really is onto this gambit of stealing from the trust funds...
...Scouting Report] Seems like a perfect match: the youngsters who watch MTV meet the geezers who prefer 60 Minutes, all packaged as cradle-to-grave, one-stop shopping for advertisers. But cross-media selling is still unproven...
...happier, except that we all know smart, sad people; or richer, except that there are wildly successful people who can't remember their phone number. Perhaps it would help us get better grades, land a better job, but it might also take us down a road we'd prefer not to travel. "You might say yes, it would be wonderful if we could all have better memories," muses Stanford University neuropsychiatrist Dr. Robert Malenka. "But there's a great adaptive value to being able to forget things. If your memory improves too much, you might not be a happier person...
Assassins' authors, whose end-times shoot-'em-ups have spawned a website and a movie deal and earned them millions of dollars, prefer to view their books' appeal in less secular terms. "People," says LaHaye, "are beginning to realize that something in this world is happening that has never happened before. The technology is going out of sight, one-world mania seems to be gripping the world." A self-described "prophecy scholar" and minister for more than 50 years, LaHaye, 73, concerns himself less with the books' prose than with their biblical underpinnings, turning ancient references to plagues and famines...