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While we're at it, we might as well make our well-paid servants lend a hand to anyone willing to shell out the big dough. Force Marty Feldstein to help millionaires with their taxes. Force Seamus Heaney to edit pulp best-sellers. Force Jeff "I'm too busy saving the world to talk to undergraduates" Sachs to clean up a country that has some money, dammit. Force Med School profs to perform celebrity plastic surgery...
Watchdog publications allow hobbyists and rank amateurs an opportunity to get their digs in at well-paid professionals. These periodicals bristle with jeremiads by professors from obscure universities, by authors whose books have been published by Asklepios/Pagan Press, and by unheralded theorists such as the project director of Redstockings Women's Liberation Archives for Action, whatever that...
...cost of living seems as much on people's minds as anything in the Koran. A well-paid government worker makes about $100 a month, but that is less than the monthly rent of a squalid flat in Tehran. Many men have at least two jobs, and working-class Iranians have taken to muttering that "life was better under the Shah...
...armed forces was huge amounts of money. Since the final year of the Carter Administration, when many of the largest weapons programs began, through the years of the Reagan buildup, the nation invested $2.4 trillion in the Defense Department. Some of this largesse was wisely used on well-paid soldiers and well-made weapons. Plenty was not: a report to Congress last week indicated the three-year-old fleet of B-1B bombers, which were unable to take part in the gulf war because their engines and electronics are so unreliable, will have to be overhauled at a cost...
...point could be critical. The 450,000 troops the Pentagon estimates to be in and around Kuwait are at least a match in numbers for the American, British, French and Arab forces confronting them, but they are far from Saddam's best. The dictator's elite troops, 105,000 well-paid, well-trained Republican Guards, are being held in reserve, some around Baghdad, most in southern Iraq. From there, they could be rushed to any point at which American and allied forces are threatening to break through the Iraqi front. That strategy worked to blunt several Iranian offensives during...