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...business of the administration is to take some of the clerical duties off the hands of the faculty; to do whatever is necessary to preseve the university both from financial worries and from intrusions of religious bigotry or political power: and to create a community where excellence of any sort is recognized and encouraged...
...social security on retirement, he notes that a "retirement effect" induces people to retire early or work less to receive more benefits. He says that, although there is a lot of concern about how social security should be financed, "if social security induces people to retire early, it's sort of chasing its own tail in trying to finance it." He, like other researchers at the bureau, is building a simulation model and will then input data on population and labor sources, as well as behavioral estimates...
...stunningly beautiful young woman on a bicycle asked for directions. "Russ ambled over to her and started to tell her, in his deep, soft voice, and I could see his effect on her. Her cheeks turned pink, and she had trouble speaking, and when she left, her bike sort of wobbled away...
Nachman last month left the News to compile a book of his humor, but he will not have to worry about the academy's replacing him. "We're sort of like the oil companies," explains Buchwald...
...styles and voices. One outing he will be just plain funny, calling up chuckles out of the absurd. The next time he will be an essayist, meditating on some social turn, usually for the worst. He can be wickedly satirical, his prose a dangerously lulling parody of the sort of nonsense that passes for sober commentary in too much of the press. And finally he can be a nostalgic, almost lyrical stylist. Examples of Baker in four moods and modes...