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...reporter from the Oakland Tribune also carried a similar key). Peckinpah called a hearing at which the newsmen refused to say how they had got hold of the grand jury transcripts. All four invoked the California shield law, which states that an editor or reporter "cannot be adjudged in contempt by a judicial, legislative, administrative body, or any other body having power to issue subpoenas." Nevertheless, Peckinpah promptly held them in contempt, claiming that the shield law unconstitutionally interfered with his judicial powers. Last week the district court of appeals stayed Peckinpah's sentences for a month while...
Although Wilson's Panglossian performance was undoubtedly intended to tranquilize the national case of nerves, it created more anxieties than it allayed. Press reaction ranged from mild ridicule to outright contempt. Said the Daily Express: "Mr. Wilson is no white man's Muhammad Ali. Instead he floats like a bee and stings like a butterfly...
...problem is his inability to latch on--to his wife or jobs or American life. Somehow he was never bequeathed the necessary ambition or stamina. Because he has no roots, he travels, and Notes is full of encounters with odd characters that evoke a bittersweet mixture of sympathy and contempt. The strangest of the lot is Mr. Blue, an aging door-to-door salesman still capable of doing 50 push-ups on request, who lives with a six-foot woman gymnastics teacher. But Exley also makes more "ordinary" encounters memorable. And the web of brawls begun over football arguments, debauched...
...this old teacher-student relationship absent? To quote Handlin again, "Now we work according to customer and client obligation. You do what is required and you don't do anything more." This is the reason. So many professors do the bare minimum required--the contempt they have for students, and for education itself, makes me furious...
...York Times of November 26, 1973 reported that Lee Kuan Yew had stated that he would be the judge of what is fit to print in Singapore. Any criticism of government policy is regarded as "anti-national." For example Newsweek's Singapore correspondent has been found guilty of contempt of court for implying that the Singapore court system was not independent of the Government...