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...because of the scrutiny that would attend every finding. "It's a bit unrealistic to think that the IRS is going to treat a President the same as an ordinary taxpayer," said one tax expert in Boston. "I think on the first time through, the IRS was far too lenient on his returns. On the second run-through, they were probably even more stringent than they would be with a typical high-income taxpayer...
...Faculty came out of the Paine Hall incident looking lenient, and seemed to be steering a course of cautious liberalism the next month when it withdrew academic credit from ROTC, though voting down at the same time an SDS-backed proposal to expel ROTC completely. But a week after the ROTC vote, a new controversy struck the Faculty much closer to home and widened the gap between the Faculty and student radicals...
...hospitals where surgery is performed, perhaps 4,500 have a watchdog peer review or "tissue committee." If an undue proportion of the organs removed by a surgeon are found healthy, he gets rapped over the knuckles and is expected to reform. But too many tissue committees are far too lenient. Knowing the imprecision of medicine and their own fallibility, the members are apt to say "There but for the grace of God go I," and let the matter drop...
Last week, Rizzo initiated a campaign of attack on the press and four particularly lenient judges...
...York Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe agreed that the Justice Department's willingness to make a lenient deal, though it spared Agnew the penalty he might have received, was in the national interest. The Times observed that a private citizen would have fared far worse. "It is also true," the paper said, "that for a public official who rose so high, disgrace and banishment from public life are severe punishment indeed...