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...Ralph Abernathy, for overstating the role of a white adviser during King's crusades. CBS's new three-hour account of Ruby and Oswald in Dallas may drive the nation's army of assassination addicts to yet another round of exasperated press conferences. The louder the debate, of course, the higher the ratings...
...same ideas about activism followed me into college. I drew clear distinctions between those who believed in certain principles and those who marched to prove their beliefs. The latter were louder, more agitated, and perhaps braver-and I certainly wasn't one of them. I went through freshman year without taking a political stand on anything. After all, I wasn't yet able to vote, and I had enough problems with everything else to keep me busy...
...question the depth of the drive for determinate sentences. Noting that many judges hand out tough sentences but do not expect them to be fully served, the University of Chicago's Franklin Zimring argues that parole serves a humane function "in a system that seems addicted to barking louder than it really wants to bite." Thus the firm-sentences movement could turn out to be short-lived. Harvard's Alan Dershowitz, for one, has predicted that after a period of legislative intrusion into sentencing, complaints will be voiced about excessive conformity and rigidity, "and the cycle will turn...
...were loud enough to drown out the protests of 15 pickets forlornly shouting "Stop the SST!" by an expressway ramp outside the terminal, but the noise level was a comfortable 14 decibels below the limit set by the Federal Aviation Administration. Moments earlier a Boeing 707 had registered slightly louder on a routine approach. Two minutes and five seconds after Flight 001 landed, British Airways Flight 171 touched down. The two Concordes then taxied to the terminal in a kind of victory parade, celebrating the inauguration of supersonic air service between Europe and New York...
Many students have gone to the department offices in person to complain about the high tennis court rates, Janus said yesterday, adding that if students begin to complain louder and more often, the current policy stands a change of being revised...