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Lewis' 14-day sojourn in prison does seem harsh. KPFK colleagues point out that it is unusual for a judge to jail someone and deny bail while a constitutional issue is being appealed. Lewis, after all, is hardly a direct menace to society, nor is he likely to become a fugitive...
Lately, Kissinger's mystique and accomplishments have become the object of a kind of revisionist press. The strongest current example is former New York Timesman Tad Szulc's sometimes harsh account of Kissinger's Viet Nam negotiation in the current Foreign Policy (TIME, June 10). In Kissinger's defense, Columnist Marquis Childs complains that to cross-examine Kissinger about wiretaps in a press conference is to act as if "diplomacy should be treated like the police beat." But if the taps flap helps make journalistic skepticism respectable again where Kissinger and his considerable achievements are concerned...
...first time that she no longer owned her $25,000 home in Evanston, Ill.; the title had been taken over some months before by a local real estate speculator. Barring some legal miracle, Mrs. Ware's subsequent two-year court battle against tough lawyers and a notably harsh Illinois tax-delinquency law will end this week, when she is forced to leave the home in which she has lived for 24 years. The reason: she neglected to pay a 1968 tax bill that came...
Thus, when the town's teachers walked out on strike in March after failing in 14 months of negotiations to reach a contract, the school board was in no mood to compromise; it fired all of the teachers and hired substitutes. The harsh action - unprecedented in Wisconsin - transformed a dispute over rou tine work issues and a small difference in salary (the union asked a base wage of $8,100; the board offered $7,900) into a major test of the state's collective-bargaining law. That statute prohibits public employees from striking and has no provision...
...version of hubris-a case of overreach for which those who would be like gods must be punished. And, in fact, whether these 17 reprinted tales (first collected in 1957) take place in Mrs. Lessing's own southern Africa or London or Paris, the settings are harsh and foreboding enough for Greek tragedy...