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...members must begin again to learn the ropes. This situation gives the administration a sharp advantage in discussions, many student members say. "The administrators deal with these questions on an nine-to-five basis. They can't help but know the issues better than we do," Megan Lesser '78, the Leverett House representative, says...
...executive committee composed of masters, students and administrators. The executive committee fixes precise lengths of time for discussion of each agenda topic. "Dean Rosovsky enforces those limits pretty strictly, but he really has to, if the discussion isn't going to break down into a free-for-all," Lesser said...
...also produce odd results when the taxes on one home are compared with those of a dwelling just down the street. A number of communities tax houses on the basis of their original value. A grand old home might have lower taxes than a brand new house of lesser quality. Some districts, such as Cook County, Ill., and Fulton County, Ga., are attempting to eliminate the imbalance by taxing all homes at their current "fair market value," but then taxes explode and devastate longtime residents living on fixed incomes. Says Ren Wicks, 65, who, as a result...
...York Times two months ago announced that movie ads it deemed unfit to print would be restricted to 1-in., unillustrated notices of time and place, the urge to purge has spread. The Seattle Times, Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, San Diego Union, Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram, and various lesser papers have either banned sex-film display ads outright or placed so many restrictions on them that advertisers have taken their trade elsewhere...
...famous names have been changed to protect the guilty. Even so, it is not hard to identify such major characters as President Richard Monckton (Jason Robards), ex-President Esker Scott Anderson (Andy Griffith), CIA Chief William Martin (Cliff Robertson) or National Security Council Head Carl Tessler (Harold Gould). Lesser Watergate lights-from Hugh Sloan to Howard Hunt-should be recognizable to anyone who has seen All the President...