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Sport puts a premium on youth, delaying acceptance of adulthood's incumbent responsibilities...
...Medicare there are more than a few places to save money. For example, the government can raise premiums, co-payments and deductibles for the middle- and upper-income beneficiaries who don't really need generous subsidies from the feds. Republicans have had the courage to call for these increases, which make sense. President Clinton has hypocritically assailed them, while his own Medicare blueprint does basically the same. But such costs for the poor or near poor can't really be raised. In fact, Medicare and Medicaid are intertwined in a way that ensures that every time Medicare premiums...
...present, we have the following scale in the upper echelons of grades: A (15 points), A- (14 points), B+ (12 points), B (11 points), B- (10 points), etc. Notice the large gap between A- and B+. Some people view this gap as a good thing--it puts a real premium on any A grades. But the CUE has decided to close the gap. Exactly how to do so has become a quagmire of arithmetic, almost geometric, nay, exponential proportions...
...others stand beside her, for she glows at the center of your vision, and those at the periphery disappear. If Hollywood is notorious as a place where actresses over 40, even the most talented, have trouble finding work, Broadway at the moment seems to set them at a premium. Back on New York stages this fall, their radiance intact, are Carol Channing, 74, in Hello, Dolly!, Julie Andrews, 60, in Victor/Victoria and Carol Burnett, 62, in Moon over Buffalo...
While we are generally supportive of the MSA's desire to move existing ethnic student groups' offices closer together, office space at the College is at a premium. The new Loker Commons will avoid granting student groups offices on a permanent basis; the facilities will instead be available for use at specific times. These spaces are, of course, open for the use of the MSA and ethnic student groups, as they are to the Harvard community as a whole...