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...decision to pull Bloom Country, elicited, in both quantity and vehemence, a greater community reaction than any other Crimson article, editorial or policy since we have been at Harvard. Perhaps students finally decided to shed the "apathy tag" that has long been affixed to them. They could easily have picked a different time and issue to come out of the closet. A look back at recent Crimson's reveals coverage of some salient questions. Central America, the arms control debate, the Reagan budget, and national elections have all appeared of late in these pages. We find it difficult to believe...
...elderly and disabled, cost $4.6 billion. Medicaid, the medical-assistance program for the poor enacted simultaneously, cost $2.9 billion. This year the combined programs are expected to cost about $75 billion, or 9.5% of all federal spending. And in five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office, that price tag is expected to climb 87%, to $142 billion, a rate twice that of all other federal spending. The chief causes of this upward spiral are longer life expectancies for Americans and medical-care costs that are rising 11% a year, nearly three times the rate of the Consumer Price Index...
...architect's model on display last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art looked rather like an upended radiator. But check the price tag. According to a number of guesstimates, the headquarters skyscraper of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp., scheduled for completion in 1985, could eventually cost $920 million, making it the most expensive single building in history. At 41 stories, it would cost only a little less than the $1.1 billion for the entire World Trade Center complex, with its twin towers of 110 stories each and its thousands of offices, including those...
...collecting. The papacy is, in fact, the world's oldest continuous art collector, and the history of its museums goes back to 1503, when Julius II set up a courtyard for connoisseurs, the Belvedere, stocked with a collection of antique statuary. Above its entrance was engraved a Vergilian tag, "Procul este, profani, "which freely translates as "Closed to non-experts." Turnstile tallies were not a concern of Renaissance Popes. In the past 1,500 years or so, the Vatican has amassed vast amounts of art in a way that has oscillated between the ravenous and the haphazard. There...
...economic setbacks hit Japan. Last year only 2.4 million people used the ferries. The Japanese National Railways, already $78 billion in the red, balked at adding a bullet line that stood to lose still more. Meanwhile, 33 tunnel workers have died in accidents, and the original $1 billion price tag will have tripled by the end of the project. What to do with the tunnel when it is finally completed? One suggestion is to use it for oil storage. Another is to grow mushrooms in it. After all, the moisture and darkness would be ideal...