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Those who favor stricter national guidelines, Hershey says, are in fact only advocating more lenient deferment standards for students. Hershey believes that "real students" should be deferred. "But there are a lot of young men just hanging around who'd be better off in the service. These people are allegedly getting an education and are allgedly going to be more valuable when they get out. But I don't grant either. The question so far as I'm concerned is: do you let them piddle around, or do you take them...
...Talmud reaches no final conclusions and does not try to reconcile contrary opinions. One authority will claim that a wife has nothing of her own while her husband lives; another will argue that she is entitled to personal property for her private use. In the view of one lenient rabbi, the Sabbath was made for man; another will demand the strict observance of so many Sabbath regulations that they seem, says a Talmudic sage, "like a chain of mountains hanging on a hair." Only by years of study can Talmudic scholars learn how to make the subtle distinction between...
...further improve its financial performance, U.S. Steel−which has operated under a New Jersey charter ever since it was put together by old J. P. Morgan−will merge with a subsidiary and incorporate in Delaware, whose corporate laws and taxes are among the most lenient in the U.S. The company will also increase the par, or nominal value, of its common stock from its current mathematically unwieldy $16⅔ to a more tidy $30 per share, largely to facilitate bookkeeping...
...citizens of this country ought to be able to walk all of the streets of our cities without being mugged, raped or robbed. The rights of the law-abiding citizens are not being given sufficient consideration. In my opinion the courts in some in stances have been entirely too lenient in the sentences imposed...
...have reasserted control. All Southern Governors remain segregationists, but with a difference. Although he won office by spouting racism, Mississippi's Governor Paul Johnson is obviously trying to move the state toward greater accommodation on the civil rights front. He still defends his state's too-lenient treatment of racist killers, but he works closely with the FBI in curbing the Klan (in fact, he himself has been threatened by the Klan lately), and he has halted the use of state money to finance racist propaganda being broadcast by the declining White Citizens Council...