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...National Rifle Association's position is based on Article II of the Constitution and has nothing whatsoever to do with popular support. The Bill of Rights was put there by the founding fathers specifically because they did not trust what you refer to as overwhelming popular support. The overwhelming-popular-support boys would deprive us of the protection of Article I, freedom of the press, just as they would deprive us of the other nine articles, provided the circumstances were right...
...House Committee "tries to make it sound like you have to pay dues and when you ask what they're for they vaguely refer to activities later in the year," Henry C. Dones '79, a Currier House resident, said Wednesday...
...Tung's dictum of self-reliance made it difficult for China to achieve technological advances during the period from 1966 to 1976, which the Chinese now refer to as "The Lost Decade," he added...
Marshall Loeb, eat your words, and if Martin Feldstein agrees, he may join you. I refer to "The Surest Social Security" [Oct. 23]: "it is now a good deal for beneficiaries because they paid in low taxes years ago and are now collecting hefty benefits." You do not consider the low salaries of the years in which many beneficiaries were contributing and the small benefits that resulted...
...that through the peak of his career Mr. Moses enjoyed the concomitant privileges of a personal fortune -- in terms of access to the state's vast resources, a position in the state hierarchy and the personal prerequisites that attend well-placed public officials. Those facts are certainly straight. To refer to those privileges as a "fortune" was a serious rhetorical oversight on my part. Yet to ignore the fact that Moses' activities did, nonetheless, benefit himself--in terms of power and privilege if not money--and to assume that the unique role Mr. Moses played in New York State politics...