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...might have to wait 10 minutes, which in the scheme of thing is pretty long," says Mark E. Lee '01-'02 says, chair of the Quincy House Committee. "There is a lot of traffic...
...earnest about curriculum reform as it postures in these editorials, it will take lessons, not cheap rhetorical devices, from great educators such as Bloom and Mansfield. Belittling so casually the pedagogical views of such men does little more than illustrate further the point Mansfield makes with his new grading scheme: Harvard students can, despite their big talk and their impressive transcripts, be sadly ignorant men and women...
...President Bush's reluctance to increase defense spending right now, the "boost phase" scheme becomes a project for the backburner. Instead, the administration may be more inclined to press ahead with the Clinton scheme to deploy some 20 missiles by 2006 as an initial phase - even though the system has so far failed two out of three tests rigged to reduce the chances of failure - hence Rumsfeld's permissive take on perfection. In the end, though, the NATO allies will take a more basic message from the diplomatic efforts of Messrs. Rumsfeld and Bush: We're happy to discuss missile...
...issued a list of more than 100 pardons. Tucked in among the names was that of Marc Rich., 65, one of the world's most wanted white-collar fugitives. In 1983, the brilliant, rapacious commodities trader, along with his partner, Pincus Green, was charged with an illegal oil-pricing scheme that amounted to what might be the biggest tax swindle in U.S. history, to the tune of almost $50 million--not to mention trading with Iran during the hostage crisis. The latter charge was later dropped against Rich's company but not against Rich and Green personally. (Not everybody...
...charges. The rogue commodity traders were indicted in 1983 on 51 counts of tax evasion, racketeering, conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and trading with the enemy. Had they not fled to Switzerland, each might have been sentenced to years in prison. The principal allegation against them concerned a scheme from 1980 and 1981, in which their U.S. company made nearly $100 million by selling oil at several times the government-controlled price then in effect. The indictment claimed that Rich's firm bought petroleum for as little as $5 per bbl., then ran the crude through a series of complex...