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...conclusion, the report expressed the hope that a thorough study of the problem would not only put the draft on a fairer basis, but would "lessen our dependence on the draft, or perhaps eliminate it entirely...
...bedroom oratory, and a speech to a mass rally of 600,000 Cubans, reached wide to justify the summary trials and executions: "They are much fairer than Niirnberg." For the present, Castro said, only Batista henchmen with more than six murders to their credit would be dealt with -"The criminals that we shoot will not number more than 400. That is more or less one criminal for each 1,000 men, women and children assassinated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...purpose of the fund would be to allow the Council to operate without relying on voluntary student contributions. Since, according to Leland, "most of the Council's functions benefit the College and future students, rather than the students now enrolled," this would be a fairer way of raising money...
...large to the maxim that poets, like porpoises, run in schools. American poets (with very few exceptions) stopped thinking after T. S. Eliot, divided into two camps, and started publishing little magazines. The first flails away at the English language, American technology, form, the gentle passions, and the fairer sex; its grenadiers are men like Allen Ginsberg--neurotic Walt Whitmans with heroin and hypodermic needles and an intense sense of persecution. The second consists of old men with furrowed brows, writing for university quarterlies and occasionally publishing in the Atlantic; substituting form for substance, proceeding with hunched back and hickory...
...Socialists promptly blasted the government for laying the added burden on the whole population, meaning that most of it would be borne by the well. Deliberately so, said Heathcoat-Amory: the government believed this was fairer than putting a still heavier burden on the sick, who are least able to bear...