Postal Office Executive’s Lux Office Sparks Transfer Controversy
Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Royko critiques Celestine Green, a Postal Service executive who spent about 200000 on a palatial office that will soon be vacated. To avoid firing, she is reassigned within the service, with two others lightly disciplined. Royko contrasts bureaucratic leniency with private sector downsizing and mocks the ethics of public employment.
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Celestine Green
Green
Postal Service
Chicago Tribune
Ms. Green
Chicago
Columbia
S.C
Wall d Co. Street Journal
Wall Street
Drsius Oo
Solnet
Eepomorasa
War by technology? a plea for human duty in foreign policy
John Tessitore, director of communications for the United Nations Association of the USA, argues that reluctance to deploy military force weakens U S foreign policy. He cautions that high tech warfare cannot replace ground troops and human risk, citing Somalia and Bosnia as evidence of the limits of technology without soldiers.
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Korea
Vietnam
U.S
Congress
Mogadishu
Somalia
Les Aspin
Peee
Port-au-Prince
Yugoslavia
United States
Pol Pot
Cambodia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
John Tessitore
United Nations Association of the USA
AIDS education debate sparks reader letter on prevention
A reader denounces Tribune coverage on AIDS education and argues prevention must begin in junior high or earlier. The letter cites CDC data on heterosexual cases, criticizes reliance on single exposure categories, and urges broader awareness. The author describes personal experiences as a police officer and appeals for education to prevent AIDS impact on families and communities. Richard S. Morrison, Apache resides.
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Tribune
MacEachern
Mr. MacEachern
Center For Disease Control
CDC
Tax rules challenge home office deductions
Philip Burgess reports that a 1993 Supreme Court ruling barred deducting home office expenses for sole practitioners with no other office. Justice Blackmun warned the decision ties workers to conventional offices, prompting Rep Hoagland to push HR 3407 to allow home office deductions when no other location exists.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Soliman
Harry Blackmun
Peter Hoagland
D-Neb
House
Ways and Means Committee
SOHO
Paul and
Sara Edwards
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Apache
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Scripps Howard News Service
A Vs. Soliman
Supreme Court
Philip M. Burgess
Center For the New
Denver
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