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...they go up the banistered staircase to the second-floor library with its old books, dark red walls and white trim, the men in the diplomatic delegations take their coats off and settle elbow to elbow at a small round table. They are mindful that Andrew Jackson and later Abraham Lincoln used to sit in that room and debate American affairs with their hosts...
...starters, Silberman points out that crime is "as American as Jesse James." Abraham Lincoln called internal violence America's biggest problem well over a century ago; Herbert Hoover anticipated Richard Nixon's law-and-order campaign by four decades; an 1872 guidebook to New York City warned tourists to avoid Central Park after sundown. What was abnormal was a quarter-century of stable or declining crime rates between the end of Prohibition and 1960, an era that ended when the baby boom produced a huge generation of 14-to 24-year-olds, the prime age for crime...
...rolls. This was the centerpiece of one of the most chaotic finales to a congressional session in memory. As Senators and Representatives fought both fatigue and filibuster, they hurriedly voted on scores of measures in a rush to get home in time to campaign for reelection. Said Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff, a 16-year veteran of the Senate: "I don't recall an end of session worse than this...
...Abraham J. Siegel, dean of Sloan School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, confirmed last night that he will mediate the October 16 contract talks and added he is optimistic about the outcome...
Presumably, judges should decide sentences. "After all, they are the impartial figures in the System," says Yale Law School Professor Abraham Goldstein. But in plea bargaining it is generally the prosecutor and not the judge who in effect decides whether and for how long a defendant is going to jail. Indeed, American Bar Association standards forbid judges to participate in bargaining, because the defendant would feel coerced to accept the judge's recommendation. Whether judges do participate varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Often, says Alschuler, they do it implicitly, with veiled threats, cajolery, hints, nods and winks...