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...plan went into effect. No longer will criminal cases be tried de novo?from scratch?on appeal, and it will be easier to move judges around from court to court to even up work loads. Some courts have also improved efficiency by hiring professional administrators to set schedules and assign cases...
Another word for it is nihilistic. It was brilliant to assign Norman Mailer to cover the 1964 political conventions; it was sick to have 1968 covered by the French Playwright Jean Genet, Novelist William Burroughs (Naked Lunch) and Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg. That same nihilistic strain infected the magazine's outworn Dubious Achievement Awards, apparently meant for readers of Mad magazine who had aged but not grown...
...enthusiastic teenagers. His mission is to inspire ghetto youngsters to change their lives by studying hard. A former aide to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson has spent the past three years taking his Chicago-based PUSH-EXCEL program to schools across the country. PUSH-EXCEL requires teachers to assign homework, students to study two hours a night, and parents to provide support. Follow-up programs are sometimes weak and the long-range effectiveness remains to be seen, but some PUSH-EXCEL programs have produced lower absentee rates and higher morale. Says Jackson: "Affirmative action is a moot question...
City Manager James L. Sullivan, who promised to assign one worker from the Civil Defense Department and another from Cambridge's planning office to work on the project, told the council, "I don't think this will eliminate the problem, but it will give us an edge...
...plan. On June 4, for example, Poland's morning dailies all had virtually the same story of the Pope's arrival at the same place on the front page with the same photograph of the prelate meeting Party First Secretary Edward Gierek. But the scheme to assign Polish journalists to keep troublesome Western counterparts in line was evidently not used; though many of the Poles covering the Pope wrote little, there were no reports of overt propagandizing. Polish state television was not given specific instructions in the memo, but one cameraman admitted that it was under orders...