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SOKOLOV ATTRIBUTES to Liebling the pioneering work in the foggy area between fiction and journalism which Truman Capote and Norman Mailer later explored. Liebling's greatness lay in his absorption of the entire story--in both senses--behind people and events, from Seventh-Avenue con men to Sugar Ray Robinson. He embraced his subjects' lives and their outlook on the world; searched out their motivations and methods and then laid forth their lives, mostly in their own words--but through his own wild periscope of the self-style uptown revel, the reluctant Jew, the recipient of all that his immigrant...
...Michael Escamilla's lazy affected drawl is the perfect voice of doom, and he fills the part of Charlie completely. Maggie Topkis, for the most part, pulls off her characterization of Carol as the tough but sensitive New York Jewish earth mother. Alex Pearson is adequate as the seductive con on the make; if he has some problems, it might fairly be ascribed to the role, which I think is superfluous. The only real gap is Dave Vanderburgh, who is somewhat too slow and static for a slow and static play...
...President cannot be an expert on every detail in the economy, every detail in the defense, every detail in foreign policy. He does not have to be a scientist or a computer expert. He has to have good judgment as he listens to the arguments pro and con, as he asks questions of people who are making a presentation. He knows that Mr. A is the best economist he can get, who is objectively giving him the options, or Mr. B is a totally competent Secretary of Defense or Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and will give...
...must wait ten years. Once the required interval has elapsed, the applicant submits a petition and a $30 filing fee to a judge, who must schedule a hearing within 60 days. If there are no objections from the police or other agencies, the request is usually granted. The ex-con's criminal record is then sealed, rather than destroyed. It may be consulted in the future by judges and certain other officials, but not by employers or other private persons. Anyone who illegally releases such files can be fined...
Landau prefers a different safeguard: a statute banning unreasonable discrimination based on old convictions. Eight states, including New Jersey, now have such a law.* But these strictures mean that an ex-con with a beef about discrimination might have to file a lawsuit, generally a lengthy and expensive undertaking. Expungement supporters argue that cleaning a record is only fair. Says Nebraska's Harnsberger: "If you serve the penalty provided by the judicial system, you shouldn't have to pay a lot of other penalties," such as being rejected for jobs. There is a practical reason as well. Says...