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...hoopsters came into the match good and psyched, warming up to a tape blasting out movie song hits from "Fame" and "Nine to Five" for inspiration. The hoopsters got off to a good start, too, and managed to leave the court at the half with a solid 8-point lead...
...outdone, senior Chuck Johnson led a sweep of his own in the 55 meter hurdles, breaking the tape in 7.89 seconds. In hot pursuit was yardling Mark Henry who finished second at 7.97. Sophomore Kim Stephens took third with an 8.04 time...
EVERY four years a new batch of campaign promises to cut government spending and rid the land of federal bureaucratic red tape, mismanagement, and fraud bubble up and cover the nation in a sea of righteous froth, often just hot, soapy air but occasionally bringing forth such tangible changes as the current Proposition...
...waste and fraud is constantly in the public eye, hounded and exposed by a well armed array of waste-watchers from Ralph Nader to Jack Anderson to vindictive congressional committees. The public sector is available and accountable to a scruitinizing, sensitive, cost-conscious public. But what of the red tape and bureaucratic mismanagement in the private sector, as rampant if less detectable than public fraud? Who blows the whistle on individual, private rip-offs of the unwary customer...
...contrary to popular delusion, the sheltered, self-contained oasis that is Harvard does not exempt its students from the occasional rip-off. Not simply as consumers, but as employees and burgeoning members of the working world, students are potential victims of private fraud and slow death-by-red-tape. Summer employment perhaps enerates the most calamities of all. A classic (and actual) case of summer employment rip-off involved a Harvard student this summer. One student pursued an ad in OCS-OCL's summer jobs file for a head-tennis-pro position, financed her own trip to Washington...