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Harvard has recently filed an amicus curiae brief in the DeFunis vs. Odegaard suit to defend its posture in favor of minority applicants. In a very narrow sense, the issue of the suit may be construed as solely one of admissions policies for minorities. Yet, in a broader sense, the issue involves the possibility of meritocratic admissions policies based on strict statistical criteria. Thus, there are a few points regarding the possible consequences of this suit for Harvard College that were not adequately discussed in the editorial "The 'Reverse Discrimination' Backlash" (Crimson...
...total $200,000. Former White House Counsel John Dean has probably incurred bills of $50,000. John Ehrlichman, Nixon's former chief domestic adviser, is fighting court actions on both coasts that may already have cost him $100,000. New York Attorney Henry Rothblatt charged $125,000 to defend four Watergate burglars, and Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt has paid out nearly $220,000, a sum largely raised by Nixon campaign aides...
...York Times in early October reported that for September 1 to 27, the first month when the new narcotics laws were in effect, only 252 felony drug arrests were made, compared to an average of 950 arrests a month in 1972. This would appear to defend Rockefeller's "scare them to death" approach. But the same Times article reports that drug activities are only being pushed further underground and that police officials attributed the decline to the narcotics squad's policy of concentrating on major narcotics traffickers. However, the arrests of five Columbia students doesn't appear...
...These people are always completely ready to defend themselves. The man with a family keeps thinkin that somebody is gonna come up to 'im with a tommy gun and they're ready...
...regroup and prepare for the next battle, is to drop the approach of finding social excuses for pornography, or arguments such as "who will protect us from our protectors?" We must stop apologizing for pornography, stop talking about threats to our freedoms in abstract terms. We should defend pornography specifically on its merits, on the fact that it represents distinct minority views which have every constitutional right to exist. We should challenge the logic of Chief Justice Burger, who wrote in the new Supreme Court decision, "At a minimum, prurient, patently offensive depiction or description of sexual conduct must have...