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...Brin's second novel, "Startide Rising," won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novel of 1983. "The Crystal Spheres" won the Hugo for Best Short Story of 1985, and "The Postman" came in second during the 1984 Hugo competition...
...David Brin, with only four novels and several short stories published, has already received many of the most prestigious awards in science fiction...
...City, ran "Glimpses of Begin," a sympathetic report on his folksy personal side designed to counter the "terrorist" image. "We didn't feel any obligation to sell him," says Robert A. Cohn, editor of the biweekly St. Louis Jewish Light. But other editors put it differently. Says Herb Brin, editor of the Heritage and Southwest Jewish Press in Los Angeles: "We've done drumhammer support for him. We refuse to bend." The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the main Israel lobby in Washington, rushed out a two-page white paper claiming that Begin's reputation...
...said that prisons should contain only those people who can't function in a free environment. That would leave only a hundredth of the present prison population, he said. "Too many busybody laws proscribing behavior clutter up the courts and the prisons," Brin continued...
Efforts to treat prisoners are really only exercises in control because of the attempt to both rehabilitate and punish inmates at the same time, Brin said. This combination makes rehabilitation degrading, he said...