Free Lunch Morality Tale and CIA Prosecutions Dilemma
TANSTRAFL opens with a fable about Kulumar where generous rulers tax workers to fund circuses and freebies, triggering scarcity as prices rise and labor abandons fields. The Wise Man declares TANSTRAFL, meaning there is no free lunch, before shifting to Washington where the Justice Department weighs prosecuting top CIA leaders versus agents for abuses. The piece notes agency crimes from LSD dosing to wiretapping and cites My Lai and Watergate as precedents, while criticizing EPA drinking water standards for not filtering cancer risks.
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Sie
Kalumar
Walter J. Campbell
EPA water standards under fire in unpublished EDF report
The Environmental Defense Fund calls current government water standards a travesty claiming 92.1 percent of U.S. communities meet them, while fluoridation levels supposedly rose and chlorine was urged over filtration. EPA disputes the claims, labeling cited cancer traces as suspects.
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EPA
Housing future glam by John Cunniff
The piece discusses housing affordability and the challenges facing multifamily development amid rising costs and uncertain economic stability. It notes how the 2.2 times income rule struggles against current median prices and incomes, and how bankers fear long term low interest loans as rates climb. It also provides a PennDOT contact list for road issues and a vivid personal portrait of Lou Ruppel, a volatile figure in journalism and public life.
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Saul Klaman
Savings Bank Group
Lou Ruppel and the shifting tides of Chicago journalism
Jim Bishop details Lou Ruppel’s rise and fall in Chicago media amid Hearst influence and yellow journalism’s decline. Ruppel alternates between public relations for Adlai Stevenson and editorial clashes with Collier’s, culminating in a fading career as the magazine dies and he longs for a return that never comes.
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Moses The Lawgiver opens on CBS with Burt Lancaster
The six hour Bible epic Moses The Lawgiver airs in two parts on CBS. Burt Lancaster stars as Moses in opening scenes, with Marcello Gatti’s photography and Gianfranco DeBasio’s direction praised. Filmed in Rome and Israel, the Italian English production retells Moses life and the Exodus with measured, low key drama and off screen narration.
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