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Every time prison violence erupts, people attach a kind of mystique to it all. There is no mystery. The American penal system is traditionally unresponsive. Prisoners' grievances often go ignored until some act of violence, or even death, results. For example, overcrowding, one of the constantly reappearing ingredients that lead to violence, does not develop overnight, but is a gradual process...
Indecisives come in two varieties: "analysts," who are afraid of making a mistake, and "be-nicers" who are afraid of making enemies. Bramson says analysts should be given plenty of documentation: if a memo has complicated figures, attach the adding machine slip or a note saying "I've checked these numbers." Despite their indecision, he says, analysts respond well to deadlines, if the lead time is stretched a bit. In dealing with be-nice people, the point is to keep the employee talking long enough to find out what is really going on. Don't push...
...Chinese attach a great deal of importance to athletic exchanges, Jay Henderson, program associate of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, said yesterday. "They tend to see sports as a mechanism of conducting competition, but also a mechanism through which they can accomplish the political goal of establishing friendship," he said...
...that, for both these reasons, they could have no conceivable political or military utility--except to deter otheres also armed with them. These assumptions, still widely held a third of a century after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, underpin our approach to SALT and explain the critical importance which we attach to it both in our defense planning and in our relations with the Soviet Union...
...Polaroid would have been a start--when you begin something other things attach to it," he contends. And by the same token, "blight breeds blight...