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...serious problem is the quality of legal help for murder defendants. The Texas study, conducted by the Governor's judicial council, found that three-quarters of murderers with court-appointed lawyers were sentenced to death, against about a third of those represented by private attorneys. Amsterdam, who has argued eight capital cases before the Supreme Court, contends that "great lawyering at the right time would save virtually everybody who is going to be executed." Scharlette Holdman, director of Florida's Clearinghouse on Criminal Justice, persuades volunteer lawyers to represent death-row inmates. "Every person sentenced to die comes...
...make a cost-benefit analysis unlikely. Most killers are probably not lucid thinkers at their best. Henry Brisbon Jr. (see box) may be legally sane, but he is by ordinary standards demented enough to make a mess of any theory of deterrence. Says New York University Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam: "People who ask themselves those questions-'Am I scared of the death penalty? Would I not be deterred?'-and think rationally, do not commit murder for many, many reasons other than the death penalty...
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Philips, 2 LPs). Bernard Haitink leads Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra in a serene, glowing performance...
...newly elected Harvard seniors include Jonathan Blair Amsterdam '81 of Dunster House. Thomas E. Anderson '83 of North House. Stephen C Blacklow '83 of Leverett House. Jonathan Cedarbaum '83 of Currier House. Lawrence M Cohen '83 of Currier House. Gregory A Dumanian '83 of Kirk land House. Peter A. Fleischer '83 of Lowell House. Sung Bin Im '83 of Eliot house. Alan Kent Jones '83 of Quincy House. Jason Dreyfun Kahn '83 of North House. Kenneth C Keeler '83 of Leverett House. Michael J Larsen '83 of Quincy House. Paul Poh-Yen Lin '83 of Mather House. John Scott Martin...
...world's great orchestras, which is the best? Some say the Chicago Symphony, for its brilliant virtuosity and blazing brass. Others nominate the Vienna Philharmonic, for its rich, burnished tone, or the Philadelphia Orchestra, for the sheen of its strings. The Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra has its champions, who admire its crisp ensemble playing. But there is one orchestra that combines all these characteristics: Herbert von Karajan's Berlin Philharmonic, which went to New York City's Carnegie Hall last week for the first time in six years, and in four sold-out concerts promptly laid claim...