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...intellectuals on campus are buying rock records and going to concerts seeking a genuine emotional experience when what they are really receiving is one that's once removed. Rock 'n roll these days is similar to the concept behind stonewashed jeans (the most trite and absurd and tacky of recent fashion statements). It's a way for people to buy a look of wear and tear, to look like they've been places, to appear raw and experienced when in fact they're living sheltered easy lives that afford them the capital to buy a life they'll never know...
...accountant, Milken grew up in California's San Fernando Valley, only about a dozen or so miles from his current headquarters. In high school, after he was benched as a member of the varsity basketball team, he became head cheerleader instead. Reflecting on those years during a recent interview with TIME, Milken mused, "When things look their worst, you always have the seed of great improvements." At Berkeley during the mid-'60s, Milken concentrated on math and business courses rather than on protest. It was there that he first considered the far-reaching idea upon which he built his empire...
...Recent congressional revelations of the environmental contamination produced by Government nuclear-weapons plants in Washington, South Carolina, Colorado and Ohio underscored the need for a costly cleanup. Last week the Department of Energy agreed to remove 6 million lbs. of dangerous wastes, some of it radioactive, that it had plowed into the ground or dumped into unlicensed landfills near an atomic-fuel-processing plant outside Piketon, Ohio, over the past 30 years. The much needed cleanup will not begin immediately: the final wording of the agreement is still being hammered out in a federal-court consent decree that must...
According to a recent Gallup poll, 37% of the voters in last month's presidential election were dissatisfied with the choice between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Nevertheless, not many of them opted for any of the 17 other candidates who were also vying for the White House. Unofficial figures for the third-party alternatives released last week by the Associated Press show that the top vote getter was Libertarian Ron Paul with 409,412, followed by the New Alliance Party's Lenora Fulani with 201,430. "None of the above" came in eleventh by earning 6,923 ballots nationwide...
Officially the White House is authorized to have 323 permanent employees. But the Brookings Institution's Bradley Patterson thumbed through recent records and concluded that 3,366 people are assigned there in one capacity or another, most on loan from other federal departments -- a venerable fudge practiced by all modern Presidents...