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Still, consistency can be a bona fide virtue, if a small one. Consistency in public life. Consistency in private. The consistency of principle, of philosophy, habit, appearance, of behavior toward subordinates, lovers and friends. To know where a leader stands is a major test of his leadership. That, and to measure where someone stands against the spot he swore to stand on, so as to determine if the person is dependable, reliable. Banks and dogs share this virtue...
Everyone seems afraid of imposing bona fide life sentences, however, and for reasons unconnected with expense. Seventeen states have laws providing for life without parole for those convicted of murdering a robbery victim. Abolitionists say such a sentence is excessive. Statistics show that fewer than 1% of freed murderers kill again after their release from prison, in part because of their advanced age. But if capital punishment is abandoned, it may make sense, politically and emotionally, to permit the public some vengeful satisfaction. Life without parole is unimaginably harsh. But it would be a way occasionally to formalize the revulsion...
...will suffer, feel awful and decry all injustice. With sweeping flourishes. Timerman is a kin of prose Whitman who sympathizes with almost everything, "weeping dolefully" for the events in Lebanon and the decline of moral Israel. He does this by pretending he is an insider, a native with a bona fide claim to all the world's ills. He declares without hesitation that since his first reading of Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, "I don't believe I have been spared any of this century's horrors...
...Masses are good for all times and places," says Beverly Taylor, associate director of choral activities, whose two choral groups, the Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS) and the Harvard Radcliffe Chorus are both preparing bona fide Christmas concerts for the coming week The Bach Magnificat in D has come to be a Mass that is especially good for Christmas, and the RCS will perform it next Monday with its traditional male counterpart, the Harvard Glee Club...
...leader of the late-night media circuit for the last four years has been a show that keeps millions of Americans from coast to coast glued to their radios into the wee hours of the morning--Mutual Radio's "Larry King Show." Five nights a week, King hosts a bona-fide, nation-wide call-in talk-show that runs from midnight to 5:30 a.m. And what he has written in Larry King, his jumbled but entertaining autobiography, is the story of how young and restless Larry Zieger of Brooklyn became the star of what he calls a nightly "national...