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Ambiguities in philosophy, insofar as a unified philosophy of the House system exists at all, manifest themselves at each planning crisis--whether consideration is being given to new programs and experiments or administrators are planning to change the levels of House programs' subsidies. Rarely can projects be definitively assessed, since no one is certain by what yardstick the success of an activity in the Houses is to be measured...
...realities of the situation in Viet Nam will not please the extremists on either side. If properly perceived and accepted, however, they may provide some basis for accommodation and an eventual compromise settlement. The military strengths and weaknesses of each side are manifest in each day's news reports and will no doubt shape the outcome of the negotiations. The success of that outcome, however, may well depend on the extent to which it reflects the political and social strengths and weaknesses of both sides. These are less obvious but more fundamental than the military factors...
...There are three good arguments to be made against capital punishment that your Essay fails to mention. First, any prospective execution creates a sensationalism that makes manifest a morbid fascination with homicide. Second, execution has irreversible consequences that imprisonment does not have. This irreversible nature of the death sentence can influence juries to acquit defendants whom they actually believe to be guilty. Third, what does the rapist have to lose by killing his victim? Nothing, if the punishment for both crimes is death...
...Wallace (and who accounted for about 50 per cent of his vote), are not likely to support a candidate on the Left this time around. But the dissatisfaction of the more than four million Northerners who supported Wallace in 1968 goes much deeper than race, and this dissatisfaction could manifest itself differently this time around...
...Wednesday, with scheduled stops at Minneapolis, Great Falls and Missoula, Mont., Portland, Spokane and finally Seattle. What happened en route rivaled Alfred Hitchcock's more baroque fantasies. In the most elaborate skyjacking ploy in the bizarre history of air piracy, an inconspicuous middle-aged traveler identified on the manifest as "D.B. Cooper" extorted $200,000 from the airline, and apparently foiled any plan of capture by parachuting to safety over southwest Washington State...