Tilting at Windmills

...This frequently causes judges not to punish offenders as severely as they should...

...After all, gays are subject to blackmail...

...In Earl's case that meant his mother, Mary, who says: "I don't think those kids have enough exposure to love...

...The meeting was described in a recent article in The New York Times that explored prejudice against AsianAmericans by Ivy League admissions directors...

...Bill had suddenly lept to great prominence as LBJ's closest aide and Murray was planning to do a story about him...

...Some could report what they could see and hear...

...Hamill goes on to make the other key point about a fair draft: that it would be a force for democracy and bringing us together if "all Americans, male and female, rich, middle-class, and poor from age 18 to 25 were subject to the draft: "There are many Americans who never met black people until they walked into a basic training camp...

...This should not be a problem...

...Stephen Engelberg of The New York Times dug up an old friend of Walker's named Bill Wilkinson and interviewed him...

...By the time we printed "Draft the Rich" in April 1979, a number of other liberals were on our side...

...It was December 1963...

...This was especially distressing because among the men and women of such tribes as the Ibo, the Ashanti, and the Kikuyu, there was often a lively spirit of enterprise and talent for it...

...In the annals of official travel for questionable purposes, the Paris Air Show has been the occasion for some of the most dubious trips of all...

...The Department of Health and Human Services sent a delegation of eight to the Air Show...

...But the one that seems most likely to me is that he read one too many headlines like this: "Schools Order Ethnic, Sex Balance on Scholar Teams...

...none were ever the same again in their perceptions of race and class...

...Then," she told Gaines-Carter, "I came home and cooked dinner...

...Of the 1,240 people who died in boating accidents last year, the Times says, "more than half the deaths can be traced to alcohol...

...When he was asked about what made his life different from the lives of most of his buddies: "It comes down to your parents...

...The vote was 147 to 1 in favor of continued publication...

...We liked one another...

...Now in its June 1985 issue, Mother Jones has, I'm delighted to report, published a highly persuasive essay by Pete Hamill called "Let's Draft the Yuppies...

...they were the news reporters...

...Three staff members manned the booth...

...And Margaret Heckler and her party of four flew to Paris to open it...

...Speaking about Walker, Wilkinson said, "I felt like he was a patriot...

...I don't think people who want to make money are going to be deterred because they only get to keep 50 cents of every dollar they make above that amount...

...Of course, they are right...

...A few issues back, Deborah Baldwin discussed in these pages the need for more part-time jobs to enable parents to spend more time at home with their preschool children...

...He was unique among the journalists of that time...

...How then is he a security risk...

...He will simply not do the hard work needed to understand and overcome bureaucratic error even in areas like defense spending and tax administration where it is critically important for the government to work well...

...But they are a handful at most...

...I like the idea...

...Mrs...

...The director of the senior high division said: "I'm going to conduct a visual review on the day of the competition and teams which don't comply will not be permitted to compete...

...In the rear section of the ward, there were four beds, two on each side of the center aisle...

...The man who was supposed to get government off our backs has not only increased the size of the federal government—there are more government employees today than when he took office—but he has also presided over the rapid decline into ineptitude of the agency that can do the most to drive the average citizen around the bend...

...Some could write about what they thought...

...The proposed reduction strikes me as another case of bribing the rich to support reform...

...They're visiting the great chefs of Europe, they're buying lingerie at Samantha Jones, they're shopping at Gristedes...

...Was this 50 years ago and was the "them" Jews...

...Now comes news from Jane Bryant Quinn, the financial columnist, that "opportunities are getting better for workers who want to put in less time than 40 hours a week ." One example cited by Quinn was the teachers of Jefferson County, Colorado, who won a job sharing program under which two teachers share a single job, each of them working half a day for half pay...

...After all, we had boom times in the forties, fifties, and sixties with much higher rates...

...But this would be wrong...

...Lee Thomas, the EPA administrator, set the TimesHerald straight with this letter: "What you call the procrastination of the last four years has actually been a calculated strategy to acquire more information so that we can resolve the remaining uncertainties and get on with the design of a workable control program...

...My newest heroes are six firemen from Baltimore who have fought through the courts to keep that city from forcing them to retire at age 55...

...She believes in "spare the rod and spoil the child": "You either respect me and my rules, or you don't stay in my house...

...The sad fact is that sports like basketball, football, and track are the only areas of our national life where blacks know the deck is not stacked against them...

...Nice girls and guys do it too...

...He doesn't hide it from anyone...

...The resulting economic wreckage has been dismaying...

...This creates a 75 foot distance between the nearest exit doors...

...Sounds tough but reasonable, doesn't it...

...When I was travelling through Africa for the Peace Corps in the 1960s, one of the most striking facts about the educated elites in the former British colonies I visited in Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya was their unquestioning acceptance of socialism and their scorn for entrepreneurship...

...A top rate of 50 percent on income in excess of $100,000 strikes me as fair and reasonable...

...Scrip was private money minted by the coal company...

...Reagan's tax reform program should be applauded for its movement toward simplicity and for the relief it gives the poor...

...What was the justification...

...In the unfolding story of John A. Walker Jr., the accused Soviet spy, there was this morsel...

...One is my friend, Harold Willens, who continues to bombard me, my fellow editors, and his fellow businessmen with propaganda for a nuclear freeze...

...His wife was a colleague of mine at the Peace Corps and had told him that I knew Bill Moyers...

...Back in 1981, when antinuclear chic was at its height, I wrote here about my fear that it was a fad that would soon pass...

...Hamill says "safe, soft, well-paid American white men watch television and growl about the need to invade Nicaragua...

...I recently asked a former employee of the Federal Aviation Administration why it had such a miserable record on airline safety...

...These lights are needed to help passengers find exit doors when the aircraft cabins are filled with smoke as was the Air Canada DC 9 that crashed in Cinncinnati in 1983...

...And consider the fact that the IRS was once one of the most—if not the most—competent of government agencies...

...But they definitely did not include what might be called the left of the left, represented by magazines like Mother Jones and the Nation, and writers like Rolling Stone's William Greider...

...That is why I'm glad they gave him a Pulitzer this year...

...The issue was whether to continue to publish an international directory of dangerous pesticides and other chemicals...

...This should, in my view, be the standard in all pre-65 retirement cases...

...While I was studying and working in New York during the late forties and early fifties, Murray, who was then writing for the New York Post, had been my idol...

...But instead of building upon these aptitudes, Africa went largely for socialism in the 1970s...

...Recently the Dallas Times-Herald ran an editorial criticizing the administration for dragging its feet on acid rain...

...We still have the actual paper documents but they would be too time-consuming to find, so we'll ask for the duplicates!' Too time consuming for the IRS to find but not too time consuming for the taxpayer to refile...

...But I see no reason to lower the maximum rate to 35 percent...

...There is a federal law forbidding the practice, but no regulations have been issued to implement it...

...I was sitting in my office at the Peace Corps still numb from the shock of the Kennedy assassination...

...No, it was just two years ago, and the group was AsianAmericans...

...While, according to The Washington Post, tests show the best lighting is provided by a system of incandescent lights placed under the seats on both sides of the aisle, the FAA is permitting the airlines to get by with installing spotlights over the exits even though tests show these lights won't work because they can't be seen in smoke...

...Think, for example, of the hundreds of thousands of threatening notices that were mistakenly sent to innocent taxpayers recently...

...Recently, for example, when Robert L. Green, president of the University of the District of Columbia went to Atlanta to attend a conference, he was not satisfied with an ordinary hotel or an ordinary hotel room...

...This is President _Reagan's IRS, not Jimmy Carter's...

...I remember as a child being charged ten cents for a package of chewing gum that was otherwise universally available for a nickel...

...In case you haven't heard, about one-and-one-half million people will have to refile their tax returns this year—not because they did something wrong but because the IRS can't get its computer to work...

...to 4 p.m., she was a domestic...

...I remember cussing commies with him...

...Wilkinson had served with Walker aboard a nuclear submarine and had also once been the Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...

...They solve a problem often confronted by judges in drunk driving cases: taking away the offender's license will deprive him of his only way of getting to work...

...The left is largely Marxist...

...Glen Frankel of The Washington Post reports that socialism is on the decline...

...I don't think these armchair nationalists would be so brave if their own kids were obligated to do the fighting in Nicaragua...

...But there are some notable exceptions...

...The only trouble is that there's no one there representing the public...

...It was Murray Kempton, who was then in Washington working for The New Republic...

...He also did them with wit and literary distinction...

...I wish more people would stick by their guns as Harold has and not be ruled by the intellectual fashion of the day...

...He was telling Patricia Gaines-Carter of The Washington Post about the friends with whom he had grown up...

...Certainly, we should use all diplomatic means to prevent them from killing one another, but there should be no military intervention unless they do something that threatens us militarily...

...We have enough of them ." "You have to admit, there are a lot," said another...

...What this means is that there is no sizable group in any of these countries that is so clearly virtuous that it merits the risk of American lives in its support...

...If he can work, he should continue to work...

...Earl is a basketball player and will be going to George Mason University on a basketball scholarship this fall...

...The June issue of Mother Jones represents a landmark in the history of the left after it became deeply involved in the antiwar movement in the midsixties...

...How then is he subject to blackmail...

...We became friends...

...Boat owners, the article made clear, are perfectly free to drive their boats while drunk...

...The Wall Street Journal recently published an article by Keith Marsden of the World Bank dramatically contrasting the prosperity of East Asia with the poverty of Africa...

...If the IRS is a once-great agency that has fallen on bad times, the FAA is an agency that has been consistently terrible for years...

...And by that I mean something like the installation of Russian missiles in Cuba in 1962...

...For anyone who cared about journalism in the 1950s, he was a beacon of hope...

...But there's another side to Moore's story...

...We were the despair of the nurses and the orderlies because we were never quiet when we were supposed to be...

...That's just too far to go when there's smoke, fire, gas, and panic," Matthew Finucane of the Flight Attendants Association told CBS News...

...It says cutting off trade with South Africa would be bad because it would hurt the people, not the government...

...A recent column by my friend, Don Marsh, in the Charleston Gazette, reminded me of a custom that used to prevail in the coal towns of West Virginia...

...But Judge Becky Titus of Sarasota, Florida is offering first offenders a choice of having their license suspended for a year, or, if they need the car to get to school or work, of placing a bumper sticker advising the public and police that they have been convicted of drunk driving...

...My intercom rang and I was told a Mr...

...This serfdom endured throughout most of the first half of this century...

...It is true that in each country one does find people who truly believe in democracy and freedom...

...This year was no exception...

...Two recent rulings explain why it is held in such low regard...

...The school was not some backwater of bigotry, but Princeton...

...First, without holding any public hearings or doing any new testing, the FAA is allowing the airlines to seal off two of the ten exit doors from the 747...

...The problem is that the AsianAmericans, like the Jews before them, are on the whole more ambitious and better students than those competing with them for admission...

...If the person can't continue to work, he should be permitted to retire...

...A Navy pilot from California and I were on one side...

...My basic point of view about Latin America is despair...

...They're just not going to be able to get out ." The second FAA decision has to do with escape lights that the FAA will require the airlines to install by November 1986...

...The speaker was Earl Moore, a 17-year-old black who lives in one of the toughest sections of Washington's ghetto...

...It's 30 years too late, but that's the way of the world, isn't it...

...Let them in...

...A friend just called to my attention a vote in the United Nations that took place one week after the disaster in Bhopal, India...

...Don't keep them out...

...School administration— public and private—is a nightmare of featherbedding and waste...

...Here, as with the inefficiency with which his Pentagon has been spending our tax dollars, Reagan's problem is laziness...

...they were called feature writers...

...That understated the case considerably...

...At most airports there is nothing to prevent a private pilot who is drunk from getting into his plane and taking off...

...Murray invited me to lunch...

...Avenue is a magazine aimed at the elite of New York's East Side, or as its editor, Judith Price, told The New York Times, at "people like us!' A recent article about the groups banding together to share houses in the Hamptons said: "One is tempted to dismiss the whole gobbling group of them as so many outer borough legal secretaries and accountants...

...The suite consisted, according to the Washington Post, of "a large living room, a separate bedroom, brass sinks and mirrors, one-and-a-half baths, a wet bar, and a lot of closet space...

...Have you noticed the inconsistency of the administration's positions on Nicaragua and South Africa...

...A similar problem exists with private planes...

...Eight went bad, one went straight...

...They get more from this country than the rest of us...

...With Nicaragua, on the other hand, it argues that an embargo will not hurt the people but will bring down the government...

...The markup on other items wasn't quite that bad but it almost was—about 30 percent, according to Marsh...

...Others would describe what they sensed and felt...

...Good news from Africa...

...HHS had a booth to demonstrate how space age technology benefits the handicapped...

...And at a time when too many public employees try to justify early retirement—for many city fire and police departments, retirement, modeled on the military, comes in the early 40's—it is heartening to hear these firemen argue for a standard of "can we do the work...

...Because," my friend said, "the guy from industry wears a $400 suit and eats at the Metropolitan Club so the FAA employee figures he must be right...

...Some even became friends...

...To provide for her children, Mary Moore worked at two jobs for almost 20 years...

...I'm sorry to say that time seems to have confirmed my view...

...Our delegate explained that President Reagan felt the directory's $89,000 cost was "wasteful...

...What fascinates me about this story is that Earl Moore knew he would have a fair chance in life because he has athletic ability...

...After dinner, she traveled to Silver Spring, where she spent six hours cleaning an office building...

...Price also publishes another magazine called On The Avenue aimed at upwardly mobile young professionals...

...From 7 a.m...

...Murray could do all these things...

...It could only be used in company stores where goods were ordinarily overpriced...

...The one negative vote was cast by the United States...

...He stayed at the RitzCarleton, and he stayed in a suite...

...During the early seventies this magazine began to argue that the draft could have brought the war to a quicker conclusion if it had been democratic and taken the sons of the influential along with those of the poor...

...We all liked to laugh...

...Besides, there is an assumption that if the FAA and industry agree, they must be right...

...His friends look around and they don't see that evidence...

...It does away with the extra tax exemption that went to the elderly without regard to need and replaces it with a tax credit that is based on need...

...To order, send $8.95 (includes postage and handling) to: The Washington Monthly, 1711 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 2009...

...I believe the rich should pay higher taxes...

...Kempton was on the phone...

...They need someone to hug them ." But to Mary Moore, love doesn't mean indulgence...

...There are, of course, many possible reasons why Norman Podhoretz lost his mind...

...The right is composed of oligarchs who feel nothing but contempt for the masses...

...Alcohol Abuse on Boats Rises" read the headline in the May 26 New York Times...

...I said I would be delighted...

...Why did it always seem to cave in to industry...

...Today the South Korean is five times greater...

...Have you heard about drunken-driver bumper stickers...

...There are many blacks who had not intimately encountered whites until they met them in foxholes...

...I wonder how much was spent on Margaret Heckler's booth at the Paris Air Show and the air travel to and from by HHS employees...

...They feel, according to their attorney, "If we're physically fit and have our mental faculties, why shouldn't we be permitted to do the job...

...their words appeared on or near the editorial page...

...The graduate school's admissions committee was meeting...

...Instead of paying the miners money, the coal companies would give them scrip...

...There are some cases where the data was erased accidentally," says an IRS spokesman...

...At that time, the left turned from supporting a military draft to opposing it...

...I saw that very thing happen in the orthopedic ward at the Fort McClellan Regional Hospital in 1945...

...These people," she told the Times, "are trying very hard...

...A white farmer from Alabama and a black farmer from Mississippi were on the other...

...Green has, according to the Washington Times, spent $25,000 of the University's money on travel, consisting of 32 separate trips since he took office in 1983...

...Charles Peters This new work, which was developed from a conference sponsored by The Washington Monthly, offers a broad-based manifesto for the neoliberal movement...

...It is a gift to the nation of the kind of new blood that has been its salvation from the beginning...

...But Swift is openly gay...

...In 1962 the per capita incomes of South Korea and Ghana were the same...

...The opposition was not muted but vehement...

...It also contains the beginning of a sensible federal policy toward the aged...

...This actually appeared over a recent story in The Los Angeles Times that began: "The Los Angeles Unified School District has ordered coaches of high school academic decathlon teams to see to it that these squads "reflect the sex and ethnic makeup of the student body...

...The center is composed of people whose main purpose in life is to avoid incurring the wrath of—and possibly being shot by—the right or the left...

...The Coast Guard, which is supposed to do the enforcing, is widely believed to be incapable of policing the 13 million boats in operation...