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...power is both misguided and pernicious. In particular, we feel it imperative that Secretary Watt learn he is not the only playmaker on the court. Perhaps a short course in history and constitutional law would inform attorney Watt he is not entitled to use government money at his own whim, nor to adjudicate whether or not his use of the funds is legal, nor to rewrite the powers of Congress. Failing a hasty assimilation of that knowledge, we think it might be high time that, in short, Watt went...
...National Rifle Association is beating the old "right to bear arms" slogan, while ignoring the one fact that overwhelmingly takes precedence-the right to live. Allowing someone to carry a weapon that can be concealed and used at the whim of one's passion is immoral...
...that she will not replace her own generation?as did her mother?by having 2.2 babies. She will probably have only one child. One thing is certain. She will go at fertility, pregnancy, delivery and infant care with an aggressive elan. She will not become pregnant at the whim of the tides, but when she can clear her agenda. Says Richard Levinson, an Emory University sociologist in Atlanta: "Women in this age and economic stratum are saying, 'If I'm going to do this at my age, then I'm going to do it in style...
...Author Paul Theroux, 40, manages to make Allie pleasant, if exhausting company. Seeing him through a child's eyes helps. Charlie does not look on his father as an itinerant handyman. "He's a genius," he assures strangers. And indeed, Allie does more than talk. On a whim, he bundles his wife, Charlie, a younger son and twin daughters off the Massachusetts farm he has been working and takes them to Honduras. He explains: "I once ate a banana from Honduras. That tasted mighty good, so I figured why not migrate...
...that night Woolsey Hall will ring once again with the sounds of victory and defeat, as the Whiffenpoofs present their Autumn Jamboree, aided by the Harvard Krokodiloes and the Yale Whim 'N Rhythms. Also at 8, the New Haven Symphonic Baroque Ensemble will perform at Sprague Hall...