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...letter begging Bush in effect to "say it ain't so, Mr. President." The White House and its allies almost did. After a meeting with Bush, Alan Simpson of Wyoming, the assistant Senate Republican leader, insisted that the President was not talking about income taxes, for heaven's sake. Maybe excise taxes, or energy taxes, or a kind of national sales tax, or something or other, but never income taxes. Bush's chief of staff, John Sununu, speaking as "a senior White House official" -- a transparent disguise -- then gave a novel definition of what "no preconditions" meant. The Democrats...
DOWN in New York City, where I come from, fare beaters, people who jump the turnstiles for the sake of $1.15, plague the subway system. The subway authorities estimate that 5 percent of all passengers evade the fare; at many stations, the rate approaches 40 percent. Liberal commentators, many of whom rarely use the subway (we call them limousine liberals), point to the high fare and the poverty that afflicts so many of the subway's riders...
...What goes?" In general, this question should be answered not by governments but by artists, disk jockeys, producers, theater owners and media executives. There are no simple formulas for what is permissible. And there is always a serious danger that high-quality, progressive art will be stifled for the sake of community standards. But much commercial trash, crassly produced to exploit the vulnerable minds of young people, is easy to identify...
...fancy dive was especially unfortunate given the fact that Gorbachev has made clear that the republic has the right to leave the U.S.S.R. as long as it follows the terms of a new secession law passed last month. Considering the West's reluctance to risk so much for the sake of showing solidarity with a determined Vilnius, Lithuanian officials may want to shop for a compromise rather than a new oil contract...
Today, tutorials mix elements of Lowell and Conant: they provide more personal interaction, not for the sake of intelligent converasation, but rather as serious preparation for research within a concentration...