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President Horner and Paul A. Freund, Loeb University Professor Emeritus, last weekend received special awards from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in recognition of their work in defense of civil liberties. Freund has been associated with the ACLU's Massachusetts chapter for more than a decade. Horner has conducted several studies related to civil liberties, including two on working women. Robert Palmer, a Polaroid employee who helped develop that company's affirmative action program, also received an award at the presentation banquet last Sunday. The awards, established after the death last August of ACLU founder Roger N. Baldwin...
...with the curious and beautiful poetic possibilities of their languages. They both love a story for its own sake; they shy away from messages and morals. They twist the literary conventions. Above all, they challenge the imagination. Nabokov treats Gogol lovingly; it makes for a delightful and intelligent opening chapter...
...Economics of Justice has serious flaws, to be sure. The passages of turgid, eye-glazing prose that seem to prevail, require an economics or law background. Posner prefaces each of his four treatises in professorial, outline-on-the-board fashion ("In this chapter, I ask how...," "I hope to challenge...," "I will sketch a model...). With such broad scope, The Economics of Justice cannot avoid a certain disjointedness, and the author's faith in the wonder of human rationality poses a familiar problem for questioning readers. Yet the incisiveness of Posner's ideas shine brilliantly through the flaws...
...that system everywhere, including, eventually, in the U.S.S.R. President Ronald Reagan proclaimed in a speech at the University of Notre Dame last May: "The West won't contain Communism; it will transcend Communism. It won't bother to denounce it; it will dismiss it as some bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written...
...Soviets, like most paranoids, have real enemies, notably the Chinese, but in many respects the Americans as well. Reagan's boast that the last chapter of Communism is now being written and that the West will "transcend" its Soviet rival must have sounded to listeners in Moscow every bit as threatening as Nikita Khrushchev's famous vow 25 years ago, "We will bury you," sounded to American ears...