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When asked to defend why he was raising revenue by levying a new tax on the use of lavatories in ancient Rome, Emperor Vespasian smugly replied, "Money has no smell." In spite of the unpopularity of this measure, no one could possibly see an ethical conflict in the Emperor's edict. But the reported private favors of "The Corporate Dole" are of a different nature. Unless the Republicans can show in each of the reported cases that the public at large benefited from the privileges granted to private enterprise, these transactions look blatantly unethical, and the monies involved have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 14, 1996 | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

Additionally, Harvard itself can be a barrier; it seems one place that by any other name might smell sweeter. My entryway discussed it the first week from the instant we applied here, the curtain descended and the barrier the tourists bring home cut us off from our classmates, even our friends. Others wear college paraphernalia ad nauseum yet even the mention of Harvard isolates us, because everybody falsely assumes we want them to feel left out. In the end, we are the ones who are isolated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The View From Here | 10/10/1996 | See Source »

...Basically it was just like, 20 minutes before the end of class. We could smell the gas. Then 10 minutes before class ended, the TF hurried up to the stage and gave the professor a piece of paper," said Adam N. Cederbaum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fumes From Lab Cause Evacuation | 10/9/1996 | See Source »

...hope the new cosmetics [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 16] smell right, especially Mildew, Plague and Gangrene. Yet I wonder how the cosmetic industry missed Dirty Diaper, Rotting Fish and Sewage? DAVID F. SIEMENS JR. Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 7, 1996 | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...potential purchaser of cK be perfume, I was puzzled about how I was supposed to respond to pictures of skinny, tattooed street punks who look as if they're about to get a bad case of the shakes. What am I to think these people smell like? Could Calvin Klein really be under the impression that I want to smell the way they smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGH, THE SMELL OF IT | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

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