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...never mentioned another Churchill dictum, dated 1946: "We must build a kind of United States of Europe." Heath's task-and it is likely to be the most important of his career-is to persuade the British that their destiny lies not toward the open sea but across the Channel, the ditch that long rendered them impregnable to continental conquerors but also cut them off from a more active role in Europe...
While tactics may differ, the aim of virtually all the groups is the same: having accepted at last the dictum that it cannot win the hearts and minds of people through violence, the movement hopes to radicalize the population through organization and political education. In Berkeley, for example, radicals are putting up a slate for mayor and city councilmen in the spring elections. Members of this "April Coalition" have already succeeded in placing on the ballot a measure that would decentralize police powers and give them over to neighborhoods within the community. Another, even more old-fashioned radical activity...
Dershowitz's dictum is extreme; outright repeal of conspiracy laws seems unwise. They are needed to stop dangerous plots before they are executed. But eminent scholars do support two basic reforms. For one thing, prosecutors should not be allowed to bring conspiracy charges when the plot has been carried out and the participants can be prosecuted for the very crime they conspired to commit. Second, critics like Yale's Goldstein contend that conspiracy law should be more compatible with the more explicit law of attempts. Under that doctrine, an illegal act must be close to consummation before...
...films included one limited success as Julie Christie's sadistic husband in Petulia. The change of image and luck finally came with Hamlet. "I had been told that the English actors would eat me alive," he says, but he took strength from their patience and from the dictum of Margaret Leighton (his TV Gertrude) that rehearsals are the place to make a"bloody fool" of yourself. As he got deeper into the play, he discovered that "my own character was liberated, I was able to shout and cry-things I'd always been too self-conscious...
...differ, but in general their rationale is that "the system" is incapable of real change and that the official violence of the government (police, prisons, armies) can only be countered by violence. The aim is ultimately to destroy what cannot be reformed. Thus, in essence, they subscribe to the dictum of the 19th century patron saint of anarchy, Mikhail Bakunin, that "the urge to destroy is really a creative urge...