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...other houses have instituted universal access, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 said. Key card access is currently in effect for all other houses from noon until 8 p.m. Any ID card is accepted at entries designated by the House as universal access doors...
Rent control was repealed by a statewide referendum which fully took effect January 1. Municipal elections will no longer pivot around the issue...
This problematic outcome would be further compounded by the demand-side consequences of Forbes' flat tax. Historically, supply-side tax cuts that produce budget deficits, like the Reagan tax cuts, tend to have a far greater effect on the demand-side of the economy than on the supply-side. In other words, Forbes' massive tax cut would substantially increase aggregate demand while only marginally increasing aggregate supply. The result, of course, is inflation. This higher inflation would then require the Federal Reserve to contract the money supply by raising interest rates which would also lower investment and hence long-term...
...YOUR REPORT ON THE GATHERING OF conservatives in Miami over the New Year's weekend [POLITICS, Jan. 8], you included a quote from me, to the effect that I had smoked when I was pregnant, as an example of the "outlaw spirit" that prevailed during the weekend. In fact I declared just the opposite: "Of course, I never smoked when I was pregnant." This is an outrage. You announced to the world that I cavalierly exposed my five children to the harmful effects of tobacco while I carried each in my womb. I am disappointed by such sloppy and unprofessional...
Inhabiting Toshi's heart and soul with absolute conviction, Brown shows us how Americans might look to a confused admirer, with their "blue-tinged complexions," their "crayon-colored eyes," their habit of wishing on everything, even "when breaking dried chicken bones." In effect, he turns the usual "The Japanese are so strange!" cliche inside out. Toshi's unsteady American girlfriend suddenly says things like, "You think I'm awful, don't you? I am, I'm dreadful and I'm not pretty," and, where the Japanese tend to present images of happy families, Toshi notes, Americans "offer up their unhappy...