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F.C.C. has already chosen 2400 students for the inaugural class. As an experiment, they did not use normal criteria of admittance, but chose students at random. "Testing is a particularly in-exact science for people coming out of a ghetto," Lynn said...
...question here: How would a Negro in Jefferson County feel about having his county sheriff in charge of gun licenses? The case is pure theory, since Southern states filled with gun owners are the least likely to adopt any gun laws, but it points out the need for clear criteria for issuing the licenses...
Undeniably, one major task of theology today is to define what it means to be a Christian in a secular society. For millions, of course, there is no real problem. Baptism and church membership are the external criteria of faith, and a true follower of Jesus is one who keeps his beliefs free from heresy and tries to live a decent, upright, moral life. Yet to the most thoughtful spokesmen of modern Christianity, these criteria are not only minimal, they are secondary and even somewhat irrelevant. Instead, they argue that faith is not an intellectual assent to a series...
...Massachusetts, as elsewhere in this country, the decision to commit a person against his will is made almost exclusively by psychiatrists. The loose language of the Massachusetts statute--which has not been substantially amended in almost a century--establishes such meaningless criteria for commitment that in practice it usually precludes effective court proceedings and review...
...psychiatric profession. Individual psychiatrists have been empowered to make uncontested pseudo-legal decisions on purely medical bases. The result of this psychiatric involvement in the legal process, says Professor Dershowitz, "has been the gradual introduction of a medical model in place of the laws' efforts to articulate legally relevant criteria." In other words, the presence or absence of "mental illness," a poorly defined and widely questioned concept, about which even psychiatrists disagree, has practically become the exclusive basis for decisions of preventive detention...