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Like reading somebody else's diary, or looking directly into your subconscious, it's the sort of unmediated honesty that most people can do without. (Of course, it can be tempting, not to say cathartic, to take a good whack at the guy responsible for the 12 most boring and/or humiliating hours of your semester. In extreme cases you can always call the CUE office and request that they suppress your most vitriolic remarks...
...THEIR VAUNTED POLITICAL clout, elderly Americans responded with an odd silence last summer when Republicans announced that they planned to whack $270 billion out of anticipated Medicare spending over the next seven years. That is partly because the G.O.P. had contrived until recently to keep the details secret. But now the proposals are real, and lawmakers such as freshman Republican Michael Flanagan last week found the docility wearing off when they returned to their districts. In Chicago outraged seniors parked a steamroller in front of Flanagan's office to symbolize G.O.P. efforts to rush the cuts through Congress. In Connecticut...
...deductions and a stable monetary system tethered to the price of gold. The present tax code, he says, is "a source of political pollution. If you don't clear it out, the weeds will grow back again." And if a new tax system throws revenue projections out of whack, too bad. "If Congress can't get spending under control, why punish the rest of the nation?" he asks. Forbes' second area of concern is education, where he embraces the Republican idea of replacing what he calls the "inbred monopolistic structure" of the public schools with voucher plans. But on other...
...would say about five out of 20 customers come from the new Kinko's," Welch said. "They say it's a nice place and everything but the prices are a little out of whack...
...cancellation of high school football games, making small children afraid to venture into their backyards -- and the threat is getting worse than ever. In some areas the rapidly spreading ants are crowding out (or killing) other insects, lizards, birds and small mammals, knocking natural ecosystems completely out of whack. Their mounds -- up to hundreds of them per acre -- have made many a farm field all but unplowable. And because the ants are strangely attracted to electric current, they have been known to chew through underground cables, disrupting everything from telephone service to airport runway lights and even starting fires...