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...Depression years and their aftermath, we forgot that first, founding lesson of the American Republic: that without proper restraints, Government the servant becomes quickly Government the master. I call it an American lesson, but actually it's much older: Cicero believed that the budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced. . . Yet even as the '50s and '60s went by, and more Americans shared my concern, Government grew like Topsy. In the '70s, federal spending tripled, taxes doubled and the national debt reached al most a trillion dollars...
Both Harvard and the Commonwealth have lost a great public servant, teacher, and man. Commissioner of Revenue Ira A. Jackson '68, a former K-School associate dean, mourned the loss of Carballo, saying. "He had miles to go before he slept...
...office in November 1982 by incoming President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, he made a declaration of goods, claiming to be worth $600,000. Alas, appraisers say the construction of a single security wall around one of his vast compounds would cost $250,000. An estimate of the civil servant's net worth: $12.5 million...
...last one. Hence, as there are no volunteers for new informers the brigade decides to find its own candilates. They decide on Dede Laffont. Who had once worked for Roger Massina, the leader of the Belleville gang. Dede is a low-key villain who resembles a civil servant more closely than a thugbut had had to leave the gang because of a jealousy over Nicole (Nathalie Baye), a prostitute with whom he was-and is-madly in love. Paluzzi and company decide to somehow, get enough information out of Dede and Nicole to get Massina...
...should. President Gerald Ford did not seem to have the distinction clear in his mind when, using somewhat sacramental language, he pardoned Richard Nixon in 1974. Said Ford: "I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President, but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy...