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...comparatively minor infraction: "The recalls are aimed at GM's Northstar Engines, which everyone views as the gemstones of GM technology and possibly the best V-8 engines made in the world. They are available only in the priciest Cadillacs. Unlike the controversial gas tanks exploding in truck pickup collisions a few years ago, no deaths, personal injuries or threats to national security seem to be involved, just some emission violations...
...course, the lending institutions that had previously reaped tremendous profits under the old system were outraged. They were about to lose truck-loads of easy money. At first, Clinton and other Democrats engineered a compromise. Direct student lending would be gradually phased in, and banks would be allowed to compete with the government for students' business...
Born also supports controlling truck traffic on neighborhood streets, protecting open space and limiting the size of commercial developments in Cambridge...
PHILIP BANKS DEVELOPED HIS BELIEF IN the "long arm of supervision" while growing up in Harlem and Brooklyn. Even when his father, a truck driver, was away on a trip and his mother was off cleaning other people's homes, neighbors would come over to supervise, scold and soothe. "You always felt like someone was watching," recalls Banks, 53. When he became a father of three boys, he kept close watch and joined the neighborhood block association to help others. His strategy for keeping his children out of trouble: Stick close. "I went to school on PTA night. If there...
...just another excuse not to do my Ec. homework," said Chad L. Wolfe '99. "I would've gone to the library, but I was afraid I'd get run over by a speeding fire truck...