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...this month began analyzing the results of its second battery of testsone set for third, sixth and eight-graders and another for high schoolers-and comparing them to the first. And thus far, reactions among school officials indicate that Cantabridgian children will circumvent the basic competency program's main flaw-that the tests can be used to rank children as to intelligence too early and for good...
...issue is not legal. A procedure has been devised in which a human being is literally conceived as a manufactured product. Therefore, consciously or not, all the participants in that procedure tend to regard the product either as the flower of a growth industry or, if a flaw appears, as industrial waste...
Meanwhile, network programmers are failing to produce any new blockbuster series. A mini-series like The Winds of War may earn ratings and prestige, but it has a fatal flaw as a piece of merchandise: it cannot be duplicated ad infinitum. The megabit series remains the most efficient kind of money machine, generating huge profits for the network in its initial run and even larger sums for the show's producer when it is later syndicated to local stations: All in the Family stands to bring in about $100 million in syndication fees. This season, Dynasty (Dallas in Denver...
...remains that, at least in the period covered by this book. Lyndon Johnson used his power to the great benefit of his Hill Country constituents. Caro fails to drive home this point; the tone of condemnation that ultimately emerges from his political squeamishness is the biography's only great flaw. Still, the book's thoroughness over-rules this blindness. If Caro's next two volumes are as compelling and groundbreaking as this one, he will have completed a work that, in its premise and its overwhelming presentation of facts, if not in its moralistic judgements, is worthy of its complex...
...decisions since have essentially been refinements and tidying addenda. Last January in Eddings vs. Oklahoma, for instance, the Justices ruled that the judge or jury must consider any mitigating factor the convict claims. Yet to many observers, that sounds like a return toward uncontrollable discretion, the very flaw the court prohibited in 1972. Says former L.D.F. Lawyer David Kendall: "We're right back to Furman...