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While the recession hit later in California than in most states, it is making up in punch what it lacked in punctuality. One reason is an economic woe that California's taxpayers brought upon themselves. As low growth and high unemployment ate into projected tax revenues, Proposition 13, a...
Such ambitious and sometimes controversial endeavors--of which the "go-go pool" was one of the shorter-lived--have characterized Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) since its founding in 1957. Now, employing one-fifth of the undergraduate population and doling out $560,000 a year in wages, the student-run organization...
Verba helped institute a series of new rules last year which make it easier for undergraduate to get credit for study abroad and at other schools. Although this ought to be of little concern to incoming freshmen, he also proposed changes which would make the doling out of honors at...
By contrast, White says, Reagan seemed aware of his shortcomings, doling out major responsibilities to his aides while himself dealing only with campaign themes and media images. But Reagan's victory stemmed in no small part form the candidate's own strategic intuition. His fateful decision to debate Carter alone...
And without belaboring the point--for Schaap's biography is enjoyable for its sarcastically anecdotal humor--that's not quite fair. Certainly, no one can excuse Steinbrenner's uninformed meddling with the finest baseball organization in history. But calling him to task for doling out high salaries seems misguided. Until...