Word: citizens
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...demonstrated that trial by jury is the only fair means," Justice Harlan would have upheld the conviction. But fairness was not the pivotal factor to Justice Byron White, who wrote for the majority. To him, the jury trial is so "fundamental to the American scheme of justice" that every citizen is entitled to it in "serious" criminal cases, whether or not another trial method might also have been fair. The court did not specify what it meant by "serious." But it implied that a maximum sentence of six months might well be the dividing line...
...moral of this mocking autobiographical burlesque-although not perhaps the one intended by the author-is that if making an enemy is unavoidable and the choice is between a writer and a psychopath, the prudent citizen will choose the psychopath. Konstantin Stanislavsky, the Russian director whose method of acting became the Method, had the imprudence to anger Writer Mikhail Bulgakov. He got away with it until 27 years after his own death, and 25 years after Bulgakov's. For most of that period Bulgakov's work was banned in the Soviet Union and unknown to the rest...
...citizen in a free society has a right to know when he is dealing with a policeman, and when he is not. A Czech liberal noted recently that one of the first signs of democratization in his country was that all the police were wearing uniforms again. Obviously, the use of undercover police in Czechslovakia has been far more oppressive and less restricted than in America. But when a young man is sent to Federal penitentiary for agreeing to sell marijuana to an insistent hippie-policeman, or when a pseudo-member of a Columbia radical group suddenly flashes his badge...
...helped traffic flows around Harvard, but critics feel that cars, even if they move faster for awhile, still get caught in the same old bottleneck in Harvard Square. Complaining letters flow in the Cambridge Chronicle. Even poets take their crack at Rudolph. In April, a poem by a senior citizen and longtime Cantabrigian" appeared in the Chronicle. In this poem Paul Revere, on a second ride, got lost in the Traffic Director's latest pattern. Rudolph was moved to respond in kind, and an exchange of poems began in the paper. The Traffic Director's latest work ended like this...
Despite the outward emnity between the Council and Rudolph, he actually performs a valuable service for them--taking the heat of citizen complaints. Some years ago--before Rudolph's time--the Council had direct control over traffic problems. "Sometimes they loved it. They were close to the people. They'd spend hours arguing over where to put a traffic light," one longtime Council observer recalls. But the votes gained from citizens who had a new traffic light near their home were balanced off against the votes lost when somebody didn't get the light he wanted. That, and the growing...