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...long-term impact on the economy is difficult to gauge. On Wall Street, the prospect of Gramm-Rudman's passage helped spark a stock-market rally that sent the Dow Jones industrial average surging past the 1500 mark on the hope that lower deficits will bring down interest rates and spur growth. But some leading economists castigated the budget-balancing bill in the most scathing terms imaginable. "It is," said Walter Heller, who served as President John Kennedy's chief economic adviser, "economically capricious, socially unfair, militarily risky, constitutionally questionable, politically irresponsible, procedurally perverse and administratively outlandish...
Meanwhile, freshman Fred Schernecker continued to spark Harvard off the bench, contributing six points...
...OFTEN that course papers spark widespread campus interest and debate. One of two factors must be at work: a) some truly controversial and heart-felt subject, for example a Holocaust paper in a course on genocide, or b) an incredibly large number of people in the course, like Ec 10 or Alan Brinkley's "The American Century." When both factors are present, the potential for real intellectual fervor exists, insofar as it can ever exist in 1980s Harvard. That's why the Moral Reasoning 22 "Justice" paper, due from 800-plus erstwhile Core-hounds last Monday, merits close scrutiny...
...looked like good old Harvard hockey tonight," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said after the contest. The Crimson showed the same spark that pushed it to a 4-4 tie with Boston College 11 days ago, and seemed to have recovered from a lackluster 9-2 victory over Dartmouth last Friday...
...going to try to put together the perfect game Saturday," Wilkinson says. "And go out with a spark of glory...