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GENTLEMEN: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--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...
...else was doing, to which a parent can sometimes only say, "No, you can't," and to the follow-up of "Why not?," "Because I'm your mother, and I say so." I might not stop her, but I would certainly slow her down. I didn't go the confession route, either. If you let them confess and you don't put them under house arrest, you are admitting your own waning authority, which even kids don't want to know about before they are ready to run their own lives...
...Schaffer states that she "...would rather have a bicyclist hit a pedestrian than a car hit a bicyclist." I must confess that I have only received one year of Harvard's fine education, but I believe that is what is known as a "false dilemma." Nonetheless, Ms. Schaffer is compelled to make this agonizing choice because the seven minutes required to cross Harvard Yard on foot is "...to much for most Harvard students to sacrifice." Apparently a few minutes of time in the interests of public safety constitutes an unconscionable infringement of right, but injuries sustained under the wheels...
...witness-protection program, constitutes what Alex Boraine, the commission's deputy chairman, calls a "trickle that could become a river." As Tutu's staff begins to serve subpoenas on officials implicated in the testimony so far, the pressure will mount for other alleged perpetrators to come forward to confess and receive amnesty. They have only until a Dec. 15 cut-off date. As the applications pour in--there are already some 2,000--commissioners believe they will hear evidence that will point high up the chain of command...
...solemnity, EZ Streets somehow manages to avoid melodrama. Indeed, Haggis brings a mordant wit to his new show. He has conceived head gangster Jimmy Murtha (Joe Pantoliano) as the kind of guy who mercilessly blows people up, then goes to confession and can't quite deliver the goods. "I know what you do. God knows what you do," the priest chastises. "You're trying to tell me that the only sin you have to confess is that you took the Lord's name in vain?" Murtha's response: "I'm giving you what I can." Then he negotiates his penance...