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...well. Brooks' grounds for appeal seemed as strong as those in hundreds of other cases that are pending. According to University of Texas Law Professor Hugh Lowe, who worked on Brooks' behalf, the perfunctory judicial refusal to give a temporary reprieve "clearly shows an impatience with endless death penalty litigation...
...High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva last month, Prasong Soonsiri, secretary-general of Thailand's National Security Council, blasted Western nations that have not honored their commitments to resettle Indochinese refugees. Said Prasong: "The lesson we learn is that being too merciful could lead us to bear an endless burden, and it cannot be forecast how much longer the Thai people would want to live with the problem...
Attempts to introduce student input into the Harvard tenure system, accordingly, have gone nowhere, and students can convey their impressions only haphazardly through personal contact. But the quiet implementation last week at Yale of a new teacher-evaluation mechanism may well cut the knot of such endless debate, and could serve as a valuable model...
HARVARD FAIRLY TEEMS with student politicos. You know the type--those bright-eyed and bushy-tailed kids who seem to have an endless supply of ties, jackets, firm handshakes, and "hihowareyous." They flock to Institute of Politics forums; they scramble to volunteer for election campaigns; they organize letter-writing campaigns to save everything from student loans to the whales. And each summer, dozens of them travel to Washington, D.C., where they work for congressmen or lobbyists, and taste real power...
Wilson called for a more objective conservation ethic based on a scientific appreciation for the diversity in nature. He expressed the hope that knowledge of the "endless magic well" of nature would lead to a sound conservation movement...