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...annual income. Back in 1970, a high-school diploma could still be a ticket to the middle-income bracket, a nice car in the driveway and a house in the suburbs. Today all it gets is a clunker parked on the street and a dingy apartment in a low-rent building...
...from The Crimson Staff's position ("Staff Contradicts Position," Opinion, Jan. 23, 1995), Jamie W. Billett '95 points out the irony that the staff supports decentralization in the case of moving registration from Memorial Hall to the Houses, but is against decentralization on the issue of local determination of rent control. I'd like to point out a little irony of my own. Mr. Billett says he supports rent control, but look at what "control" has done in the past. Such evil forces as Hitler, the Russians and my sixth grade science teacher all used "controls" to carry out their...
...that issue the staff is perfectly willing to let a state-wide election over-ride local determination of rent control...
...only they were willing to apply the same principles to rent control as to study cards, all those poor disabled octogenarians and impoverished families would not be kicked out into the street...
...dining-room table. Having gone on numerous diets, he is now satisfied, he says, to "maintain" his current weight, which is one attitude the President might be sympathetic to. He doesn't go to museums, the theater or the movies. He prefers to buy videos rather than rent them, so he doesn't have to take them back. (His latest purchase was Philadelphia.) For a social life, he has "the Mosbachers -- that's it as far as New York society goes -- and they're friends." The one thing he likes about Manhattan is that everything can be delivered...