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...million gal. by late last week -- almost a dozen times as much as the Exxon Valdez leaked into Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989. And this time any cleanup could be a deadly mission in itself. The spill is "in enemy territory," says Marine Major General Robert Johnston, the U.S. Central Command's chief of staff. "We can't just go in and shut...
...Undergraduate Council Chair Evan B. Rauch '91-'92, on the council's proposal to charter a shuttle bus to Logan Airport to assist students in their homeward treks. The bus would pick up students from Johnston Gate every two hours from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on December...
...proposal calls for a shuttle bus to run December 18 and 19, which would pick up students at Johnston Gate every two hours, beginning at 9 a.m. and ending at 7 p.m., said council Chair Evan B. Rauch...
...essays in Beyond the Boom vary considerably in quality. By far the liveliest is David Brooks' "Portrait of a Washington Policy Wonk," a dead- on, deadpan satire about how legislative aides and assistants to Cabinet secretaries can rise above their lowly station. Johnston, in "Break Glass in Case of Emergency," effectively skewers yuppiedom's jejune New Age spirituality. And Teachout, in "A Farewell to Politics," argues plausibly that the great ideological battles of the '90s will be fought over culture, a word he defines broadly enough to include abortion; family policy; and "sensitivity fascism" in American academia (which he describes...
...future in a city teetering on the brink of terminal decay. It's not a prospect that cheers the salon regulars. New York may be a city under enemy (read: tired old liberal) aegis. But it is also the center of a vernacular culture that makes the U.S., in Johnston's sardonic phrase, "the most amusing place to live in the history of the planet." And there is no doubt in the minds of Johnston and his friends what room offers the best view, if only once a month...