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...reluctance of children to do homework is not new. Moreover, there is a curious silence about television, although you did describe what happened when a mother "tried" banning television for a night. Absent any evidence to the contrary, it seems clear these children are consuming an excessive ration of TV each night. Television is bad enough in itself without pre-empting time that would be better spent on homework. To the extent that there is a homework problem, it is a failure of priorities. JOHN SILBER, CHAIRMAN Massachusetts Board of Education Boston
This year, the pass defense has caught up with the run defense. In the past four games, the secondary has allowed just 35-percent completions touchdowns versus eight interceptions. This has helped make Harvard's pass efficiency ration fifth best in the country...
Navy ships are dry, no booze allowed. Well, almost. According to naval tradition, if a ship is at sea more than 45 days, each crew member is entitled to a ration of two cans of beer. Just two. One man, the captain, decides whether the crew gets them. As of Tuesday, the Nimitz will be at Day 45. It has 5,500 sailors, so flying in 11,000 cans of beer poses a logistical challenge. The clock is ticking, but the betting here is that the beer won't come until the crisis in Iraq has passed...
...Have a male-female ration below...
...gets more than three pages of entries, among them Joe Lunchpail, an ordinary working man, and Joe Sad, black English for a friendless or unpopular man. John Wayne wins nine citations. To John-Wayne is to attack with great force; a John Wayne cookie is a military field-ration biscuit...