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Nobody seeks to abolish the exchanges for serious surveys, definitive retrospectives and similar events. How one would like to see the Deposition as the climax of a Caravaggio retrospective, or the Apollo Belvedere as the focus of a show that intelligently explored the workings of the neoclassical ideal! But it is time for the international museum community to give a lot more thought to which journeys are really necessary, which shows justify great loans, and which ones are merely totemic...
Indians first viewed Watt's remarks as a veiled effort to abolish the reservations and sell off the 50 million acres of Indian lands...
Ever since he assumed office, President Reagan has been trying to abolish the Legal Services Corporation, which provides 85% of the money that supports local legal aid offices. Congress has so far managed to save the LSC, but did allow a 25% cut in its current budget, reducing it to $241 million. Reagan, who believes the LSC is misused by ultraliberal lawyers, has undercut its effectiveness by appointing an interim eleven-member board of directors, most of whom are basically opposed to what the corporation does. Last week the board signaled its intent to withhold funds from local groups that...
...there is a great gap between what the guilty may want or need and a declaration that individuals are not guilty because of their wants or needs, or guilty but something else. Instead, society must reassert the importance of moral, not quasi-medical, decision making It is time to abolish the insanity defense, not to propose alternatives like guilty-but-mentally-ill. Ellsworth A. Fersch...
...independent newspaper Ha'aretz observed, "You don't have to love Levin's play or agree with his opinions to defend his right to say whatever he likes." At midweek in a preliminary vote, the Israeli Knesset expressed its support of a bill that would abolish all censorship of films and plays...