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...stickiest questions turn on costs. Bill Clinton has signaled that he will boost taxes on alcohol and tobacco to help meet the $50 billion-to-$70 billion price tag for providing insurance to America's 37 million uninsured. Sin taxes alone, however, won't be enough. Last week Magaziner privately asked representatives of large and small businesses how best to cap costs in the short term while phasing in benefits more slowly. That idea concerns some in the White House, who insist, as one put it, "We have to create winners before we create losers...
...some states for an employer to eavesdrop on private conversations or telephone calls -- even if they take place on a company-owned phone -- there are no clear rules governing electronic mail. In fact, the question of how private E- mail should be has emerged as one of the stickiest legal issues of the electronic age, one that seems to evoke very different responses depending on whose electronic mail system is being used and who is reading the E-mail...
Verba is, at age 57, the consummate faculty insider, a professor to whom deans have repeatedly turned for help in solving some of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' stickiest problems...
WHEN Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence created the high-profile committee on affirmative action last spring and tapped Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53 to chair it, many students and faculty members looked to it to decisively resolve one of Harvard's stickiest problems--its failure to add minorities and women to its faculty in significant numbers...
...smoke and black pepper, complemented by a thin, brassy sauce unmarred by sweetness. Runners-up include the Auburn Avenue Rib Shack, in the historic black downtown area of Sweet Auburn, and Harold's Barbeque, the site of the best-quality meats, the most comfortable dining room and, sadly, the stickiest, sweetest sauce...