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...members of Congress and ordinary Americans questioned the wisdom of a policy they do not always understand. For the fractious little country at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, whose government the American peace keepers were trying to uphold, the event marked another terrible setback on the seemingly endless path away from anarchy and chaos...
...bombarded the American education process with criticism, charging that it turns out students deficient in even the three "R's." Politicians hoping to woo voters have taken up this fight, announcing dramatic plans for rehauling the schools. And last but not least, journalists themselves have joined the fray, printing endless articles deploring the deterioration of the schools and demanding action...
Late Night Thoughts finds him as steady as ever. He has much to add to his recurrent themes: the wonder of discovery and the need for humility when faced with nature's endless secrets. "It is not just that there is more to do," he writes, "there is everything to do." Urgent notes are struck, especially in the title piece. The final strains of Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony no longer evoke a musical metaphor for death's natural release. The long string passage now stirs images of the world's end. The reason...
Autry thus became the most vivid symbol to date of the seemingly endless legal confusion and complication that have characterized attempts to carry out the death penalty since the Supreme Court revived it in 1976. Recently, the court has sought to expedite the labyrinthine appeals process, but to little avail as yet. The Autry case seemed to be typical of how the Justices would like to see such cases handled. In 1980, Autry was sentenced to death for murdering Store Clerk Shirley Drouet, 43, in Port Arthur, Texas, when the mother of five asked...
POLLS keep reporters off the streets too. A poll may come with endless hedges about margins of error and standards of accuracy. Nevertheless, it is an irresistibly instant cross-section of the electorate. "The Globe reporters were just salivating for the results of the polls." Stewart says. The magic percentages offer a sense of "momentum" in mid-race. Polls may be superficial; momentum may be an artificial constraint on the democratic process, which after all is not the race but the final tally. But it is something easy and cohesive to report...