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...moan, we're marooned! Here's secret number two: the location is not a problem. In fact, its inconvenience is ridiculously exaggerated. The shuttles come so often that the schedule-savvy Quadling, if he or she so chooses, can actually walk a great deal less than your average river rat. Sure, there are down times (usually in the mid afternoon), and in the morning or around lunchtime those red and white buses can get pretty crowded. But the shuttle service, ever sensitive to student suggestion, has improved steadily over the past three years, to the point that there...
Public housing in America is almost universally acknowledged as a policy failure of mammoth proportions. But in a nation of neglected, rat-infested and crime-ridden housing projects, New Orleans has always rated special notoriety. Its government-subsidized apartments were consistently rated among the country's worst. One of its biggest projects, an 1,800-unit catastrophe called Desire, was long reputed to be the very worst. The Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO), a political hornet's nest of patronage and chronic mismanagement, was so inept at making repairs that tenants routinely waited years for simple services. Hundreds...
...much more concerned about special prosecutor Kenneth Starr's out-of-control investigation than I am about President Bill Clinton's alleged out-of-control libido [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 9]. I do not want to live in a country where "friends" are encouraged to rat on their pals, where body wires are used to gather information about someone else's sex life and where FBI agents bully naive people and rummage through their personal belongings. This is the stuff of totalitarian regimes. KAY VINSON Germantown, Tenn...
...YORK: There are no official records, but it's a good bet that before his death from flu complications in Manhattan Tuesday, Henny Youngman told more jokes than anyone, ever. Famous for his rat-a-tat-tat strings of one-liners, immortalized of course by "Take my wife, please," Youngman did comedy at six jokes a minute, 200 dates a year, for the better part of a half century...
...some ways, such early exposure to the rat race is beneficial. We can see what the top looks like in almost any field before we have to make the decision to try to reach it. We can decide for ourselves whether we can be content without success and whether we would live more happily and comfortably in an environment numbering fewer Napoleons. Being a mover-and-shaker in the world has always seemed very exciting...