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...idea dates back to the ancient Babylonian Code of Hammurabi that provided public recompense for citizens who had been robbed. That practice did not flourish in the Anglo-Saxon system as governments came to adopt the view that crime is an offense against society; efforts to control it concentrated on punishing the criminal. Now that approach has begun to change. Says Saul Wexler, who handles compensation cases for the Illinois attorney general's office: "The innocent victim often suffers more than the assailant who is sent to prison...
...times, Clumly seems bound for a caricature pig-of-the-week award, or else a New Centurion's badge for meritorious service. Instead, Gardner pits poor old Clumly against the Sunlight Man, a brilliant existential philosopher, French horn player, gadfly, madman, magician, murderer, idealist and Shavian exponent of Babylonian religion and the new consciousness. But when the smoke and the rhetoric and some cadavers have been cleared away, there stands Clumly (much humbled and wiser) as, by God, some kind of confused, committed, ignorant, rumpled, preposterous champion of Western culture...
...kids in vicarious heat. Where these two walls of energy meet, above the stage and its blindly waving fringe of teeny-bopper arms, they precipitate a form. It is Mick Jagger, Jumpin' Jack Flash in person, laced into a white rhinestone-studded jumpsuit and painted like a Babylonian hooker, back-lighted by amber spots and front-lighted by a Mylar mirror the size of a movie screen slung from the roof trusses, belting into the chorus...
Coming to the big city is a kind of initiation rite into the fraternity of adulthood. In a young man's imagination, the metropolis is an enticingly profane glade of Babylonian delights. In reality, the tyro may face a jungle ordeal in which he is savaged by the mightiest beast, the city itself...
...dialectic between the homeland and the Diaspora. In his. 1971 book Tents of Jacob, Anthropologist Raphael Patai points out that Jews had their first consciousness as a people not in the homeland but in an early Diaspora?in "the strange land" of Egypt. History further demonstrates that after the Babylonian captivity, Judaism was never without a Diaspora, never without Jews?some of them important thinkers?in parts of the world other than Israel. Even some committed Zionists now concede that Zionism does not demand immigration to Israel...