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...employed full time. The pair got a baseball bat and beat Chin to death. Said he as he lost consciousness: "It isn't fair." When Ebens, 44, and Nitz, 23, were sentenced last March after confessing to the murder, Chin's dying complaint seemed all the more apt: Wayne County Circuit Judge Charles Kaufman gave the killers three years of probation and fines of $3,780 each. He said that the men, who had no prior criminal records, were "not the kind of people you send to prison." The light sentences enraged newspaper editorialists across the country...
...smile fondly at us. Most of the time we are subjected to a crossfire which makes running the gauntlet look like a stroll. Comments like "Mmmmmm, nice," and "Hi there, honey" from total strangers may seem harmless; but because of them a women who ventures out in public is apt to return home feeling more-totalled than Total...
...O.A.S., was successful for the U.S. The words L.B.J. used to justify the involvement-"to insure the safety of innocent people, to restore normal conditions and to open a path to democratic process"-were almost the same as Reagan's last week. Yet the comparison is not quite apt: the intervention in the Dominican Republic was not exactly an invasion, because the troops had been requested by the military authorities ostensibly in control of that Caribbean country. In fact, never before in this century have U.S troops actually invaded a country to fight against a ruling government...
...Boston, Superintendent Robert Spillane is improving one of the nation's most racially torn school systems. An apt symbol is South Boston High School, where whites clashed with blacks in the mid-'70s. Today Southie is a well-balanced school with a population of 856 students that is 43% black, 34% white, 11% Asian and 12% Hispanic. In 1976 Headmaster Jerome Winegar began an in-school suspension program: students who get into trouble are assigned special help under a supervising teacher instead of being
Today these objections sound like dated cavils. All art is fiction, and the more complex the fiction the better the art is apt to be. Motherwell's elegance is not a matter of style. It comes from deeper wells: mainly from his highly critical and intelligent sense of the accumulated language of modernism and of how his own pictorial impulses relate to that language. It is the elegance of realized thought...