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Also elected were: Glenn M. Schwetz of Eliot House and Dun Ellen, N.J.; Robert M. Sedgewick Jr. of Quincy House and Dedham; Benjamin B. Sendor of Leverett House and Queens Village, N.Y.; Dennis L. Sepper of South House and Medina, Ohio; Theodore P. Seto of Dunster House and Teheran, Iran; Robert T. Skovbroten of Winthrop House and Red Wing, Minn.; Michael J. Smith of Currier House and Yonkers, N.Y.; and, Patrick J. Smith of Leverett House and Miami...
There was a time when native intelligence was the salient American virtue. When Citizen Tom Paine wished to incite his countrymen, he titled his pamphlet Common Sense. His colleague Benjamin Franklin made a career of common sense; Poor Richard was a seed catalogue of utilitarian philosophy ("The used key is always bright"). By the early 19th century, De Tocqueville noted that Poor Richard had gone public. "Without ever having taken the trouble to define the rules of a philosophical method," he wrote, Americans "are in possession of one, common to the whole people...
Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee, recalling the mood while his paper was being denounced, says: "Talk about minefields! One major slip in this story would have destroyed us. We were playing with the entire well-being of the Post company." While that statement contains a touch of hyperbole, it does reflect the sense of vulnerability many newsmen felt while the "major media" were under attack. Such apprehension has been replaced by a feeling of vindication; the traditional stance of the press in American society-rambunctious, independent, skeptical-has been proved valid again. There were two other, more specific lessons...
Throughout the week's proceedings, Ellsberg's chief counsel, Leonard Boudin, 60, also showed wear. Though a veteran of the trials of Dr. Benjamin Spock and the Rev. Philip Berrigan, Boudin has always been more at home with appellate procedures than in trial law, and he faltered in his questioning, so much so that Judge William Matthew Byrne himself frequently took up the line of inquiry. Reliant on a heart pacemaker, Boudin finally was ordered to rest by his doctor. The proceedings were suspended until this week, when Ellsberg is expected to take the stand again...
Overall, Harris' group estimates that the tax code provides $25 billion in "welfare for the rich." Brookings economists Joseph Pechman and Benjamin Ochner go even further, asserting that Federal tax subsidies--which favor mainly the well-to-do -- amount to $77 billion...