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...IDEA THAT justice means equality is often assumed bur rarely argued for, Writers assume that to show that a small percentage of the population has a larger percentage of wealth or income is to show that a social problem exists. The only question that remains is how to change it. Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy, challenges this assumption arguing that an unequal income distribution is not necessarily wrong, and that any state which pursues egalitarian goals is inherently unjust. In support, Nozick introduces a new theory of distributive justice...
...Bur airport searches are not objectionable only because of horror-story arrests that result from them. A passenger whose luggage is X-rayed or opened, and who must either submit to a search of his person or walk through a metal detector, should be as outraged as a passenger dragged off to jail for having a joint in his toilet...
...moths will allow. But the collaboration of a young crafts man and a modern-day old master have transformed it into something bold and new. Bright color plays against the hemp's rich browns, big shapes against the intricacy of woven texture, gay in genuity against humble utilitarian bur lap. Formidable...
...downtrodden in Compton-Bur nett are the young people: lonely, badly dressed, capriciously mistreated. In Bullivant and the Lambs, perhaps her best book, they are used to create a series of comic tableaux. Asked what they are doing, one replies: "We are waiting for time to pass." Another spends his time rereading his favorite story, the book of Job. In The Last and the First, when the put-upon young Heriots and Grimstones meet for tea, a minor Heriot says, "We have been looking forward to the day." A Grimstone replies: "We would have done so, but the faculty...
...Britons discovered last week, no one had guessed quite how tough. In a commanding and convinc ing 135-minute speech, Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins spelled out new fiscal measures that are the most se vere since the Depression year of 1930. They will levy on already heavily bur dened Britons a total of $4 billion in new taxes during the next 21 months. Said the Times of London: "Nasty-but necessary...