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...Dunster House tutor's complaint about the use of University funds to purchase a toaster oven for Dunster's new kosher table has prompted a sharp response from the director of Harvard Dining Services and from several Orthodox Jewish students...
...opinion that, while providing kosher food is a commendable effort to meet the wishes of Harvard's diverse community, the purchase of a toaster oven, reserved exclusively for kosher use, is an example of improper partiality towards one group," Ignatiev wrote...
...currently making its way through Congress, would give the FDA commissioner emergency powers to pull any drug from the market. At present, about all he can do is jawbone a recalcitrant company into withdrawing a dangerous product. "It's easier for the Consumer Products Safety Division to recall a toaster than for the commissioner of the FDA to recall a dangerous drug," grouses a Capitol Hill staff member. Even so, the measure is strenuously opposed by both the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association and the White House, which sees it as burdensome regulation...
...news at the moment is NewTek's Video Toaster, a $1,595 plug-in board that attaches to Commodore's video-friendly Amiga computer. It gives operators a "frame grabber" to freeze images for computer manipulation, an animation program to create flying 3-D titles and a long menu of digital effects like the Star Trekkian "transporter" that can dematerialize people from the screen...
...pressures. That helped a lot when Seidman and Treasury officials began feuding publicly about how best to clean up the S&L mess. At one point the Treasury floated a proposal that the bailout be financed by a fee on bank deposits. Seidman ridiculed the idea as "the reverse toaster theory -- instead of the bank giving you a toaster, you give one to them." The White House started letting it be known that Bush was "interested in getting new leadership" on the S&L problem. "It all would have worked out amicably if they had not decided to attempt...