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...would be more here at Harvard if SDS hadn't refocused the debate. Far from deserving praise for "raising the issue," the members of the SDS-UAG anti-Herrnstein campaign--though their behavior lies outside the disciplinary reach of any rational system of academic justice--deserve the censure and contempt of all members of this community...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Ideas and Coercion | 12/8/1971 | See Source »

...religious freedom, increased mail privileges. Three newsmen allowed into the cellblock at the prisoners' request heard echoes of Attica in the inmates' demands. Associated Press Correspondent Carl Zeitz, one of the three, wrote later: "Inmates crowded to the bars, each hotly stating his grievances: distrust of officials, contempt for the police and the guards, the conviction that the courts, the prisons-indeed the whole system of American justice-are a failure and they its victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: Tragedy Averted | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

...pocketbooks of American taxpayers have been drained, and the blood of their youth sacrificed, for the welfare of other nations, who at every opportunity treat us with the special kind of contempt reserved for suckers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1971 | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...signing an antiwar petition. But his logical judicial reasoning commands the respect of both liberals and conservatives. He was a magna cum laude graduate of Yale and made a reputation as one of Washington's ablest trial lawyers. One client: former Communist Party Chief Earl Browder, indicted for contempt of Congress in 1950 and acquitted the next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Nixon's Other Judges | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...court then heard arguments on the Idella Marx appeal. Marx was convicted of contempt in the lower court after she refused, under subpoena, to answer grand jury questions even after she was granted immunity from prosecution...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Court Hears Appeals On Grand Jury | 11/11/1971 | See Source »

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