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...third case, I appreciate the writer's concession that prayer on such occasions might be valid, although I confess to confusion as to what a non-sectarian prayer is. Is that a prayer that could not possibly give offense because it says nothing that anyone could believe or disbelieve...
...weighty tomes like Mickey Mantle's most recent epic, a reminiscence in the manner of Marcel Proust, My Favorite Summer 1956. But dazzled as I was by his emotionally evocative sentences ("I met up with Billy at the St. Moritz coffee shop for a quick cup of coffee"), I confess that I yielded to temptation. Instead of scrupulously working my way through a pile of new books as oversized as Cecil Fielder's strike zone, I frittered away my critical faculties watching real- life baseball on TV, even slighting sleep for the red-eye ESPN night games from the Coast...
...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beting the System," you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the bad guys--rather than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
Legal experts disagree on whether last week's ruling will give authorities a freer hand to browbeat suspects. "Many years ago the police became convinced that they don't need violence to get people to confess," says Yale Kamisar, a criminal-law expert at the University of Michigan. But the head-banging style of police interrogation has not disappeared. A dramatic example: the case of Barry Lee Fairchild, a black man with an IQ of 62 sentenced to death for the 1983 murder of a white Air Force nurse in Little Rock. Lawyers for Fairchild, who are pursuing an appeal...
Americans, haunted by the stern visage of Woodrow Wilson, are loath to confess that they do not act for reasons of morality alone. We would rather not admit that one reason to resist Saddam Hussein is that we are not prepared to see the economies of the West wrecked by the ambition of a foreign tyrant. Indeed, some American critics think it a fatal moral criticism of the gulf war to say that if Kuwait had only sand and no oil, the U.S. would not have rushed to its defense...