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...kind of order; radio and television another, usually sequential. But every form journalism takes is designed to draw the public's attention to what the editors deem most important in a day's or week's events. This naturally violates the larger truth of a chaotic universe. Oddly, the public often contributes its own hierarchical arrangements by dismissing editors' discriminations and dwelling on the story about the puppy on page 45 instead of the bank collapse on Page One. The "truth" of a day's events is tugged at from all sides...
SOCIETY BEING as chaotic as it is these days, the odds against maintaining a stable family are increasingly slim. Moreover, with the threat of nuclear annihilation and large-scale destruction becoming increasingly likely, families continue to use any means possible to shelter their children from the unpleasant realities of the world...
...securing enough votes to ensure election may prove to be the easiest of all tasks for the ultimate winner. Success for the new government and a peaceful future for the entire country hinges upon the president's ability to deal effectively with the three major elements controlling the current chaotic situation--the army, the rebels and the U.S. Congress...
...chaotic caucus proceedings could only further tarnish the Greens' reputation with moderate voters. Green delegates to the Parliament, declared one speaker, should aim to "put sand in the gears." Well they may. Of the six candidates nominated by the party to stand in national elections to the Parliament this June, four of whom are likely to win seats, one is a Marxist lecturer once active in the radical S.D.S. of the 1960s, and two others have been sentenced to prison terms for publishing articles calling for political violence...
...convicts were expected to serve them in full. But they seldom did; the penitentiaries, then as now, were always full, and Governors would sometimes pardon prisoners wholesale or delegate that authority to prison wardens, who often used their power randomly. Parole boards evolved in part to end this chaotic system, and to further the goals of progressive visionaries, who thought prisoners were victims of a "social sickness" and should be treated rather than punished. Individualized justice and rehabilitation were the watchwords...