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...cents a call. The subsidized price of a large loaf of bread is about 2 cents. But for the majority of Egyptians, whose per capita income is $600 a year, subsidies are just enough to keep them from penury. Last February national security police rioted after the rumor spread that their hitch would be extended from three years to four. Reason: the conscripts earn less than $10 a month, on which many of them must support families. In 1977, when former President Anwar Sadat tried to cut food subsidies, widespread rioting almost brought down his government. "We learned from...
...shrillness, her tendency to lecture and her radical conservatism. Instead, the Queen is characterized as a moderate who shares her eldest son's social concerns about race relations and urban deterioration. Thus rose the unlikely speculation that the "palace mole" may have been none other than Prince Charles, a rumor that the Sunday Times refuted...
...closed-door session of a congressional subcommittee, he found himself at the center of a rising storm over influence peddling in Washington. Reporters mobbed him, cameramen jostled him, and flashing strobe lights so blinded him that he walked right past the committee-room door. "After five months of rumor, leaks and innuendo," Deaver bravely declared, "today is my day." But it was clear that the media's feeding frenzy had just begun and that the capital had been seized by one of its periodic fits of morality...
Kurzman, writing with the unparalleled probity and insight of the National Inquirer, breathes the question "Is the rumor true?" regarding the special treatment of athletes at Harvard. Rumor? Kurzman obviously did a lot of legwork researching this editorial. Better meals? The Varsity Club training table abolished in 1969. Athletes eat the same meals as everyone else (although in much greater quantities). Tutoring, another perk Kurzman cites, is available to athletes only through the Study Council, the Writing Center, etc. While the employees of the Athletic Department are predominantly athletes, it also employs other students and senior citizens. Most athletes...
...reputation, and I understand why Kurzman doesn't wish to see it tarnished. He completely fails to convince me, however, that fielding a dominant hockey team will have this effect. His discussion of the admissions, living, and academic perquisites Harvard athletes supposedly enjoy is, by his own admission, undocumented rumor. Gossipy tripe about football players bragging over low SAT scores is meaningless. Also, the connection between athletes, investment policy, women's studies, and Afro-American Studies completely escapes...