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...believe television is at the root of the whole thing," Reardon said. "The big schools wanted their own small group within Division 1-A and their own small group within Division 1-A and their own contract so they could get all the money," he added...
...polo ball, a terrified moose-hunting decoy and a freaked-out monastery candle snuffer. Morrow, who lives in southern Vermont with his two cats, Nina and Lucy, does not hate cats but rather what he feels people have made of them. Human avarice, not atrocity, is the root of the problem. Says Morrow: "There's so much schmaltz from the pet industry. You see it on TV and in stores. My work is a comment on the state of merchandising, rather than whether cats should live or die. Next time, I'm going to make fun of people...
...cover story, checked by World Head Reporter-Researcher Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, was written by Associate Editor Henry Muller. As TIME'S European economics correspondent based in Brussels, then as Paris bureau chief for four years until last summer, Muller watched the antinuclear movement take root and grow in The Netherlands...
...does not mean any new cash in their vaults. Moreover, many customers are getting money for an All Savers Certificate by taking it out of passbook accounts, which now pay no more than 5.5% interest; that actually increases the cost of borrowing money for the financial institution. Concludes Stuart Root, president of the Bowery Savings Bank of New York City, third largest in the nation: "All Savers are not a panacea for our industry, but then again, nobody really thought they would be. The certificates were seen as a Band-Aid when no other medicine was around...
...favorite subjects included nuclear war ("Who's Next?" about the arms race, and "We Will All Go Together When We Go,") personal degeneracy ("SMUT" and "The Masochism Tango") and human ineptitude in all its inglorious splendor. At the root of all Lehrer humor seemed to be the assumption that things could get better if only people stopped screwing up. He looked not for malevolence but rather for benign stupidity--not for evil but for incompetence...