TILTING AT WINDMILLS

...I was delighted that Mickey Kaus's letter in last month's issue showed, except for the difference I noted in my reply, that we were in substantial agreement on the subject of Vietnam protest and draft resistance, and I regret having given a contrary impression in October's "Tilting...

...As Jeremy Schlosberg points out in this issue (page 25), raising money is the big problem, much, much bigger than anything else...

...We did it in the forties and fifties and sixties and still had the strongest economy in the world...

...The new policy will make it possible for more husbands and wives to work at least part-time at home and give their children the loving attention they need in the early years...

...The articles they wrote and the thoughts they were thinking in regard to their failure to fight in Vietnam were largely self-exculpatory: "I was right—or mostly right—to resist the war" or "I was right not to go...

...One of the crazier aspects of the Republicans' antiregulation hysteria has been that the OMB's managers have spent more time in the Reagan administration trying to thwart desirable regulations proposed by the EPA and other agencies than trying to bring efficiency and effectiveness to the government, which should be their primary goal...

...Why was he permitted to drive a car...

...It is just possible that he is motivated less by devotion to the public interest than by his desire to replace Congressman X or Senator Y...

...Thirtyeight percent of the respondents agreed that "the higher the tuition cost of a college, the better the quality of education a student will receive...

...It occurred to me that one excellent way for the lawyers to improve their image would be to stop making the rest of us pay for their vacations...

...Charles Peters...

...They have also managed to convince the rest of the country that income redistribution is bad...

...The shortage of tough regulation at the federal level is duplicated in the states...

...I suspect that the different perspectives that we brought to the classroom made a difference in the quality of discussion...

...The resulting shortage of major articles published in the final four weeks focusing on Dan Quayle's mental and moral qualifications, and on the judgment of the man who picked him to be vice president, will remain one of the great journalistic scandals of 1988...

...Dan Quayle has told a young girl that he would not recommend she get an abortion if she were a victim of incest...

...But the nurses oppose it with language that is reminiscent of the kind the physicians use to repel nurses who want to advance: "We don't want someone inserted between the nurse and the patient...

...But they should not abandon all hope...

...He died after his car went out of control and hit a metal pole...

...law student who filed for the license to operate a local station...

...This will help alleviate a serious shortage of nurses...

...Wall Street likes the takeover candidates better, even though they frequently are such candidates precisely because they aren't well-managed...

...He had already suffered two strokes...

...of The Washington Post asked Dr...

...A few months ago, Columbia University proudly announced that it now expected to house 90 percent of of its undergraduates in dormitories...

...The Southbridge [Massachusetts] News has joined the handful of publications that refuse cigarette advertising...

...One told of a commission that the American Bar Association has set up to look into the low state of the legal profession's image and to suggest a strategy for improving it...

...East Coast Bias Colors the Media" was the headline on the first of three articles that David Shaw wrote in the Los Angeles Times on a disturbing truth about the press...

...How can you turn $210 into $250,000 without buying a lottery ticket or betting on horses...

...One of the great strengths of the Columbia of my day—the late forties—was the different worlds from which its students came to the campus each day...

...Craig Allen Williams, a convicted felon awaiting sentence, was ,recently released, due to clerical or judicial error or a combination of both, and proceeded to gun down at least three men and a possible fourth victim...

...Would, he asks, the "CBS Evening News" broadcast eight stories in 13 days about a Chicago subway vigilante...

...Why should a judge have the right to refuse such a request...

...They are fighting a proposal by the American Medical Association to train workers— to be called RCTs—in a short time to perform some of the simpler tasks that nurses do...

...But the story that followed confirmed that Asian automakers had in fact raised their prices for the 1989 model year less than the average increase by General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, at the very time the respective values of their currencies would have justified large price increases by the Japanese and none by us...

...So much for competitiveness...

...Wal-Mart, Compaq, and Merck are three of the best companies in America, but, points out James J. Cramer, the investment columnist for Manhattan Lawyer, in recent months their stocks have not been moving upward...

...Fertilization has already occurred and you are trying to disturb the lining of the uterus so the fertilized egg can't implant itself...

...His passing was an occasion to recall the many outstanding feats of his long career as one of the great pitchers in the history of baseball...

...He has also said that if his wife, Marilyn, were raped and became pregnant, he would advise her to carry the child...

...One clue as to why so many colleges and universities are charging astronomical sums for tuition and getting away with it is in the results of a recent survey of students by the Gallup Organization...

...Possibly if the case involved a child or a divorce, legitimate privacy issues might be involved...

...I do think, however, that his August and September Newsweek articles, on these matters and their relation to Dan Quayle, along with what the many other journalists of the Vietnam generation were writing and thinking in the weeks after the Republican convention, did have an unfortunate effect on the election...

...The other was an advertisement headlined "Ski Tahoe," which turned out to be promoting a taxdeductible seminar sponsored by the Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association...

...The unintended effect was, I suspect, to exculpate Dan Quayle...

...But neither of these exceptions applies here...

...But with a handful of anecdotes about a .few stupid regulations, the conservatives have managed to persuade most of the country that regulation is bad...

...I congratulate its editor, Loren Ghiglione, and hope other editors and publishers will follow the example...

...Kent Jenkins Jr...

...Virginia, on the other hand, made a sensible distinction, halting furloughs only for prisoners who had been convicted of crimes of violence...

...That's just what happened in the case of a Washington, D.C...

...Bush transition officials should therefore be wary of the politicians who urge this or that cabinet post for Congressman X or Senator Y, when the politician happens to be from the same state as the statesman whose appointment he is advocating...

...They give two reasons...

...The good news is that goat cheese is out...

...Would Newsweek have published five stories on a Tawana Brawley who lived in Ypsilanti, Michigan...

...I'm sure some of my fellow alumni who lived off campus will share my lack of enthusiasm for this development...

...The state comptroller put it delicately when he observed in a report that there is "a lack of emphasis on enforcement on the boards...

...Those who, say, figure out ways to reduce or reverse environmental damage should be honored with prestige—and plenty of money—as should those who discover harmless drugs that help the victims of tobacco, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, and other dangerous substances to overcome addiction...

...If they rush to the hospital and get a D and C immediately, that's okay with Dan: "That is not anything to do with abortion...

...Haldeman to his deputy, Alexander Butterfield: "In seating at State Dinners, the President [Nixon] feels that Henry [Kissinger] should not always be put next to the most glamorous woman present...

...My anxieties about knowing what's in and what's out have been soothed, for the time being at least, by an article in The Palm Beach Post by Thom Smith, who reports that this year's hot car will be the Bentley Muslanne Turbo R, which can be yours for a mere $140,000...

...How can they face themselves, and their children, knowing that they are letting their pages be used to encourage an addiction that kills...

...Maryland's Patuxent Institution canceled Thanksgiving leaves for all inmates, which was cruel, because some posed no danger to the community...

...He refused...

...Over the years this magazine has advocated that nurses be liberated from their perpetual inferiority to doctors, who are often their inferiors in competence, and be allowed to perform any medical task if they can demonstrate an ability to do so...

...The secret, according to Christopher Ladd of Legal Times, is to apply for a radio station license that another applicant, who happens to be very rich, wants very badly...

...The other union objection is the real rub: home workers are harder to organize...

...The aspect of the deregulation craze that has seemed especially silly to me as a man who founded this small business 20 years ago and has struggled to keep it alive since, is the Republicans' conviction that overregulation is a big deterrent to the entrepreneur...

...Why doesn't one of the great foundations establish a program of generous awards to people who create socially desirable products...

...Lifting the prohibition on work at home is one of the few Reagan administration accomplishments that I totally applaud...

...Now the nurses are doing the same thing the doctors have done to them—stomping on the fingers of those below them who are trying to reach for a higher rung on the ladder...

...So it is a scandal that the majority of liberals in Congress supported a maximum tax rate of only 28 percent...

...Instead we redistribute income from the poor to the rich, in a program that is supported by most liberal Democrats—Social Security...

...So Republicans who want to help the entrepreneur should worry less about deregulation and more about finding ways to encourage capital to flow in his direction...

...The unions are just like other large, aging organizations—more concerned with protecting their own interests than with advancing the public's...

...To avoid lengthy hearings and possible loss of the licenses, that applicant will pay you to drop your bid...

...For me it was a roommate who worked in the theater and a landlady struggling to make ends meet for herself and her four sons in the workaday world of the city...

...Trying to determine what had happened, reporters asked the presiding judge, Steffen W. Graae, of the District of Columbia Superior Court, to let them hear a tape that had been made of the proceedings...

...One is legitimate: a concern over working conditions...

...So companies that are takeover bait will undergo sharp increases in their price on the stock exchange, while the good companies mark time...

...Carl Hubbell died recently in Arizona...

...One doctor did get his license suspended, but only after complaints about his overprescription of narcotic drugs had been made for 11 years...

...Curiously, the only proposal I know of in recent years that was specifically aimed at helping the entrepreneur came from a Democrat, Gary Hart...

...Nixon and Tricia fitted with balls...

...On another occasion Nixon complained to Haldeman that a 1966 Bordeaux was being served too often at state dinners...

...For tailgate picnics at polo games, the Range Rover is just the right thing...

...The sexual revolution has meant that in many cases both parents of infant children are away from home all day working, which isn't at all good for the child...

...But my favorite remains Haldeman's memo to the supervisor of the White House bowling alley: "The President wants to have Mrs...

...The Chattanooga Times reports that "in nearly all cases" the state's regulatory board and commissions are controlled by members of the regulated groups or industries "who in many cases show little or no inclination to act against their colleagues...

...But it should also be an occasion to reflect on the way driver's licenses are dispensed...

...Joseph Collea, an obstetrician at Georgetown University Hospital, just what a D and C conducted after a rape was...

...Certainly, by the last four weeks of the campaign, the initial firestorm of articles critical of Quayle had dwindled to close to zero...

...The reason is that most states, as long as you renew your license regularly, allow you to keep until you die, without any retesting of your driving skills, the one that you got with the alert reflexes of a teenager...

...The truth is that we need tougher regulation in everything from airline safety to pollution control to the savings and loan industry...

...Two clippings sent by readers recently arrived at our office in the same mail...

...The unions fought this change...

...The moral repulsiveness of this behavior is worst in the case of the many publications that accept such advertising not as a matter of survival but merely as a way to increase the owners' already hefty bankrolls...

...One of the greatest of the myths cherished by American conservatives is that this country has been overregulated...

...It gives too much in benefits to the elderly rich and takes too much in taxes from poor workers...

...Since their clients tend to be in a perpetual state of high anxiety, they are easily victimized by the consultant who advises them that more TV time is needed, which of course means more income for the consultant...

...The more time they buy, the more they earn...

...One reason political campaigns cost so much is that most of the media consultants who work for these candidates get a commission on the TV advertising time they buy for their clients...

...The nurses have every right to resent the physicians' defensiveness, but they shouldn't imitate One of the most honored techniques for self-advancement in government is to lobby for a higher position for the person whose job you want...

...But that can be dealt with by a program of random inspection of home work sites that will keep employers who are tempted to exploit workers from doing so...

...But it's still good .; it's still what our heroes, from Jesus Christ to Robin Hood to Franklin Roosevelt have taught us...

...The total capital raised by this entrepreneur, who had no broadcasting experience, was $1,000, of which $210 was her own contribution...

...Regulation has in fact been a very minor problem in the life of the Monthly...

...For the largest group, who could not afford the dorms, it was living with their parents in one of the variety of ethnic neighborhoods that made New York so alive and colorful...

...For giving up this claim, she and her associates got $1.2 million, of which her share is $250,000...

...He was 85 years old...

...The recent scandals about prison furloughs produced a stupid reaction in Maryland and an intelligent one in Virginia...

...One was able to buy a million-dollar home with his earnings from just a single senatorial campaign...

...The most modest progress has been made, in the face of dedicated opposition by the great majority of physicians...

...We should soak the rich...

...The public has a right to know what is on that tape...

...The reply: "Yes, it's a type of abortion, obviously...

...Our Annual Passion for Justice Award goes to Judge Edith Jones of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit who rebuked a lawyer who had filed a lastminute motion to delay an execution, because it made her miss a birthday party...

...With the recent great rise in the value of the yen and great decline in the value of the dollar, I simply couldn't believe this headline: "US Auto Prices Raised More Than Japanese Models...

...My point is that, while many of his peers had legitimate reasons for not going to Vietnam, this was no reason to let Quayle off the hook on the larger issues of character and ability...

...For others, it was living with friends who were involved in everything from music to finance to painting and publishing...

...Tennessee is an example...