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Although the district court still refused to take jurisdiction in light of Article 76, the appellate court saw things Murphy's way-and thus spelled out an exception to Article 76 that may well embolden other ex-servicemen in Ashe's situation. In effect, Ashe v. McNamara is another sign that U.S. military justice is gradually assuming many of the standards of civilian justice. Not only is Ashe ecstatic; his boss is so pleased that he has ordered the Navy veteran to resume his tenth-grade education at the company's expense...
Ground Rules. To embolden the many by safeguarding the few is a basic A.A.U.P. purpose. In its current statement of principles, made jointly with the Association of American Colleges, it sets the ground rules of academic freedom. Though master of his classroom, the teacher should avoid "controversial matter which has no relation to his subject." Though free to speak up outside the classroom, "he should remember that the public may judge his profession and his institution by his utterances." He should be accurate, respectful of other opinions, and "make every effort to indicate that he is not an institutional spokesman...
...Bold Brass Band," only to discover that everything Best in the world begins with a B-Butterflies, Blackbirds, Blue Balloons and the Bicycle of a Barefoot Boy named Billy. Moral: "It is a Brave thing to Be a Bee." Poet Louis Untermeyer uses a mere 179 words to embolden his readers in One and One and One. Plot: a cat without a home meets a dog without a bone. Both join a wise old owl and a friendly bear, and they discover...
Behind sandbag barricades and rifle-toting guards, Haiti's strong-willed President Francois Duvalier lay last week in his white palace, seriously ill of a heart attack. Out of fear that the truth would embolden opposition elements to start trouble, his aides stuck to a diagnosis of "grippe," but only succeeded in starting dangerous rumors-that Duvalier was paralyzed, was already dead, or had left the country. Superstitious blacks in the Port-au-Prince slums whispered that the President's ouangas (voodoo charms) had lost their power...
...public, should it come to a showdown with Communism, "would unite as one," and moreover, if the opposite were believed by the Communists, "it would embolden our enemies and make almost inevitable the conflict...