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...Netherlands' liberal attitude toward personal freedoms of all sorts. Every Saturday, a state-run radio station broadcasts the current street prices of various hard and soft drugs, a service much appreciated by the 2,000 young people sleeping out in Vondelpark on any given summer night. Dutch cops assert that France began to get on top of its growing narcotics problem only when it started imposing 20-year jail terms on drug dealers. In The Netherlands the maximum term is four years, but judges usually hand down sentences of only a year or so. Laments Inspector Cor Elbersen, head...
...about the marvels of the system and how it 'worked.' But it did. And it is important to be precise about how it worked . . . in the end and most importantly, it was the conscience and pride and responsibility of innumerable people and numerous institutions that combined to assert that 1) there was (and is) a norm of official behavior that is recognized and respected by all Americans and 2) the President's departure from this norm was sufficiently gross and calculated to require an extraordinary and unprecedented remedy...
Those who fear the rule of King Mob often complain of "the tyranny of the majority" and even romantically assert, as did one of Ibsen's characters in An Enemy of the People, that "the minority is always in the right." Lone voices crying in the wilderness often do speak good sense, and majorities can of course be wrong, or infuriatingly slow to come round to a view that is later seen to be right. But after examining all the arguments for the assumed tyranny of the majority, Ferdinand A. Hermens, professor emeritus of the University of Cologne, concluded...
Middlemen are quick to argue that they are merely regaining their traditional share of the retail food dollar -but in doing so at a time when farm costs are still high by historic standards, they are adding substantially to food prices. Food processors and retailers assert that they need the money to pay steadily rising bills of their own. Atlanta-based Colonial Stores, for example, reports that its wage costs have risen 10% to 12% in the past year. Gasoline and electric costs have shot up as much as 50% in the past eight months; and for some food processors...
...reporter's and editor's decisions must depend on many factors-the nature of the leak, its apparent accuracy, on whether it comes from a judicial body or otherwise. He must weigh the possible damage to individual reputations against the public interest. The journalist cannot assert the right to print everything and anything; he must decide each case on its merits, while remaining accountable to his editor and, ultimately, to his audience. The decision is usually a battle of conscience waged by journalists far more seriously than most outsiders realize. In general, the American press today...