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...recent general elections were characterized by a significantly improved voter turnout among first-years, attributable in large part to the new vote-by-internet system. We hope that undergraduates will continue to increase their participation by voting in council elections. A high voter turn-out is one of the surest ways to bolster the legitimacy and accountability of our student government...
...literary form, especially when it is the work of a gifted writer embarked on a voyage to discover some elusive personal truth. In Heart: A Memoir (Warner Books; 323 pages; $22.95), Lance Morrow, a writer and essayist for TIME since 1965, does not shrink from the realization that the surest path toward self-discovery is self-disclosure. In an effort to heal body and spirit following a second coronary-bypass operation at the relatively young age of 52, he was determined to seek out the sources of the internalized anger that had twice threatened to choke off his life...
...according to a Labor Department study released today. The two-year look at workplace strategies of American companies was conducted by the management consulting arm of Ernst & Young for the government. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who has advocated such strategies for years, said the path-breaking" study "shows the surest way to profits and productivity is to treat employees as assets to be developed rather than costs to be cut." An example from the study: Motorola Inc. estimates that it earns $30 for every $1 invested in employee training...
...WHITE HOUSE NOMINATIONS cursed? Retired General Michael P.C. Carns was the surest bet Bill Clinton had for an easy confirmation as CIA director--Harvard Business School graduate, Vietnam veteran and former vice chief of staff of the Air Force. "You couldn't find someone with a more exemplary career than Mike Carns'," said a White House aide. "But now you can't get a nominee through unless he's one of the apostles...
...know they qualify for it, and many of those who do get it don't realize they're also eligible for food stamps. Above all, Clinton should invest his dwindling political capital in an all-out drive for his job-retraining programs. Upgrading worker skills remains the surest route to increased incomes. As Clinton says, ``What you earn depends on what you learn; the most effective way to help is to make workers more productive because wages reflect the value of what people produce...