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Basic to communication is the art of helping children (or adults) to express, and thus handle, their inchoate feelings. It seldom pays to condemn or reason with an angry child; strong feelings vanish not by fiat but rather by the clarification that occurs in a child's mind when a parent "mirrors" or states his problems for him. To spank a tot who says, "I hate you," is to store up his anger that will augment future misbehavior. A skillful mother listens, says, "I know just how you feel," and the child's feeling that someone understands shrinks...
Orders is orders in the Army. That hoary fiat has produced its measure of anguish and hilarity over the years. Its seriocomic aspects surfaced last week in the court-martial of a Viet Nam-bound private who said "I won't go," and didn't, and the troubles of a private first class on furlough who was told to await new orders, and did-for 18 unregimented months...
Others besides Fiat are trying to sell them what they want. Common Market tariff reductions have brought increasing competition from abroad, and now Fiat, for the first time, is about to be challenged by an Italian firm. State-owned Alfa Romeo, which has decided to produce low-priced, medium-sized cars, is building a plant called Alfa Sud near Naples; it expects to turn out 300,000 cars annually...
...Fiat, which objected to a "fragmentation of the industry," fought hard to stop the government-sponsored Alfa Sud project. But Alfa President Giuseppe Luraghi was the better lobbyist. "By 1981, automobile production in Italy will double to around 2,600,000 cars," said Luraghi. "We intend to participate in that market, and we hope to have at least one-fourth...
...greatest Chief Justice after John Marshall," Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox argues that this lack is an important failing. Only by virtue of how well the court explains itself can it command consent. Its prestige comes "from the belief that the major influence in judicial decisions is not fiat but principles which bind the judges and apply consistently among all men." In addition, lack of precision leads to confusion, and confusion leads to the necessity of reinterpretation. Though the Warren court is by no means the first to spend time interpreting what it has already said...