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These new requirements render Bovet unfit for the post, according to Wilson and Chamberlin...
...negotiations broke down, Armey announced that the Republican leadership was ready to turn to Plan B. The scheme: if they couldn't cut a deal with Clinton, they would turn to the Blue Dogs to come up with a budget that could pass over the President's veto and render him irrelevant. The Republicans' latest offer--embracing the Blue Dogs' Medicare and Medicaid numbers--signaled that the G.O.P. leaders were serious about that strategy. "We've learned a lot about pressure and leverage this year," says Condit. But the goal, he adds, is not to bypass the President...
...inevitable failure. However, if the courses took the place of others that they would have to teach during the rest of the year, the system could free up time during one of the regular semesters for other projects. This reformed system, although admittedly a potential negative incentive, might actually render faculty more enthusiastic about the Core...
...could read Sabbath's Theater as Roth's backlash, a Mamet-like refutation of P.C. feminism. But that would be missing the point. Roth never comes close to defending Sabbath. He only hopes to render the man--his "primal emotions and indecent language and careful, complex sentences"--in such high relief that, try as we might, we cannot despise him. When Sabbath is booted out of his puppetry professorship at a local college, Roth sees fit to include, as a foot-note, a lengthy transcript of the offending teacher-student phone sex episode. This is only Roth the provacateur, daring...
...lower real wages. The only way to reverse this trend is to create more jobs by reducing the standard work week. Shrinking the work week from 40 hours or more to 30 hours would help solve the employment problem caused by the information revolution. JAMES W. RENDER Pontiac, Michigan