Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits & Outrages NOT COUNTING ALDRICH AMES The New York Times reported that the money lost in the explosion last summer of a rocket carrying a spy satellite was equal to a year's salary...
...PLEASE STATE YOUR AGE AT THE TIME YOU BEGAN FILLING OUT THIS FORM" A group organized by Jimmy Carter to streamline government paperwork revealed that the South Carolina Medicaid application is 41 pages long...
...GOOD ANSWER, MOSHE, GOOD ANSWER...
...YOU KNOW, THE SAME REASONS WE CALL A PAYMENT FOR PLAYING FOOTBALL A SCHOLARSHIP' AND A YEAR OFF WITH FULL PAY A SABBATICAL" After presiding over a substantial increase in University of California "student fees," not for the auxiliary services and activities such fees were intended to cover, but for instructional costs, UC president Jack Peltason was asked by a university regent, "Why don't we call it tuition...
...Scott Shuger...
...In the ten-night face-off, with proceeds going to charity, the priests won more times, but the rabbis earned more money...
...Peltason replied, "For legal, expeditious reasons we don't use that term...
...In a bid for better ratings during May sweeps week, the game show "Family Feud" pitted a team of priests against a team of rabbis...
...GREAT MOMENTS IN FACT-CHECKING The Los Angeles Times ran the following correction: "JoAnn Stroughter has never run a crack ring as stated in a picture caption in Tuesday's View section...
...Tidbits & Outrages NOT COUNTING ALDRICH AMES The New York Times reported that the money lost in the explosion last summer of a rocket carrying a spy satellite was equal to a year's salary for every spy and analyst at the CIA...
Vol. 27 • January 1994 • No. 6
