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...fact, he had stood away from the door to make his intention clear. Williamson testified that he saw Fink standing in front of the door in the third row of demonstrators. This situation is common in criminal cases. A says he was, B says he was not. The accepted criterion of judgment is "reasonable doubt." Fink was found guilty and thrown out of school. This was in June...
...This criterion proved to be quite a shock. The Committee's grounds for allowing an appeal hearing, "compelling evidence" were outrageous. The Committee had set more stringent grounds for granting an appeal hearing than it had previously stipulated for acquittal. This initial outrageous requirement was exacerbated by more Committee mumbo-jumpo...
...teratism we call penitentiaries. If this is to be the decade for penal reform, may God grant that the church will not arrive on the scene "too late, with too little, and all out of breath." After all, it is of no small significance that Jesus Christ defined one criterion of judgment with crystal-clear simplicity: "I was in prison and you did not visit...
...appears in public and strikes attitudes. As rhetoric disappears from political life . . . it seems to be making a backstairs re-entry via the 'poetry reading.'" Wain thinks we have lost our sense of discipline in the search for immediacy, and he predicts that if crowd-pleasing has become a criterion of excellence, poetry, which has lasted for thousands of years, has a future "no longer than the future of the Beatles." We all have our own ideas about the Beatles, but as long as there are writers who give themselves entirely to the relentless pursuit of their conceptions of truth...
...automatic disability. Some statesmen-like Churchill or De Gaulle-come into their own when those around them are heading for the nursing home and the checkers table. But one does not have to join the youth cult to suggest that length of tenure should not be the sole criterion for choosing the men who help determine the country's future...