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These personal tragedies are only one aspect of the incredible mediocrity now ruling over Czech film production. The tone was set by Miroslav Muller, a hardliner and the current cultural watchdog of the Czech Communist Party. He tried his own talent and wrote the screenplay of a new film directed by K. Stekly (who is well in his 70s and the only director who agreed to do the job). The film is called The Enemy at the Wheel and is supposed to be an allegory on the 1968 events. The story goes something like this: a gang of cab drivers...
...prolonged upswing has also dulled the cutting edge of a long-feared change in Wall Street's business practices that is scheduled to go into effect next week. By order of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the industry's watchdog, what remains of Wall Street's barnacled century-old system of charging uniform, fixed commissions for buying and selling stock will end. On May 1, negotiated commissions between brokers and the investing public will begin on all trades. Investors will be able to shop among competing brokers for the lowest commissions and the best services. Wall Streeters...
...things, one of which is that if there is a chance for incremental change, then that chance must be taken. The suggestion that a visiting committee be formed to check out Harvard community relations is that type of unsatisfying yet necessary change. Appointing a visiting committee to be a watchdog may show that Harvard needs a few new officers, more experienced and willing to deal with neighbors. They hope that the new people would even consider presenting their community views to Harvard, rather than always acting as a bargaining agent against local interests. This willingness to compromise comes in part...
...Secret. Colby argued against some suggested reforms of CIA operations. He opposed restricting the agency's clandestine activities to those first approved by a congressional watchdog committee because it would "interrupt the constitutional process of the Executive executing and the Legislative legislating. If you put the Congressmen in the chain of operations, I think you have a very complicated problem of who is really responsible." As for the proposal that Congress set specific guidelines for CIA activities, Colby said: "It would be very hard to set any that wouldn't come back and bite us some day." Instead...
Some Government agencies, he argues, give perverse incentives to export scarce goods like wheat and cotton, and to export credit, which allows rich countries to buy U.S. goods at less than market prices. Last year Reuss suggested the creation of a congressional price-supply ombudsman to act as watchdog over rising prices. Finally, he would finance a tax reduction for low-to middle-income Americans by, among other things, closing loopholes such as untaxed capital gains at death, hobby-farm deductions, and tax-exempt interest on bonds...