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...Secret Service agent who placed his hands firmly on the presidential hips and steered the Chief Executive from behind as the President went hand shaking down a rope line, the agent occasionally swatting the President on the right thigh as a jockey would a racehorse. ("It's code," another agent said cryptically when I asked...
...staff ignores a crucial aspect of any ideal disciplinary structure by neglecting to propose an honor code for Harvard. Everyone on campus would benefit from an atmosphere in which students are considered responsible enough to judge their own actions. Under the current system, the Administrative Board plays the role of wrist-slapping parent to erstwhile children; under a system with an honor code, the disciplinary body would necessarily include students and be more of a peer review. Harvard would be making a great contribution to the world if it instituted an honor code whereby students signed an ethical contract upon...
DIED. JAMES EDWARD DAY, 82, former Postmaster General who inaugurated the zip code in 1963; in Hunt Valley, Maryland. Day's Zoning Improvement Plan system was inspired by Time Inc.'s zoned mail deliveries...
...north Floridian, he believes Corrine Brown's narrow 1994 victory won't sustain her in the newly drawn Third--the district is 11.5% less black and as much as 20% more Republican than in 1994. Fields supports the line-item veto, reforms to cut taxes and make the tax code simpler and more equitable, and a balanced budget...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Our challenge will be to do no less than pull the current income tax code out by its roots and throw it away so that it can never grow back...