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Nobody who cares about good writing could object to the choice of Flannery O'Connor. But one could-and many did-with justice point out that Walker Percy, John Updike and E.L. Doctorow, to name only the three most notable examples, had each produced a skilled, serious and powerful...
The tax-exemption objection can, according to our authors, be overcome with a bit of legerdemain no more complicated than reading the two sections of the Internal Revenue Code that impose political prohibitions on universities and other charitable organizations. Section 501(c)(3) provides that:
The obligation to profit objection is similarly far from insummountable. A comprehensive argument against the claim that this "obligation" restrains the university in any way might be made in two steps.
All of these difficulties make prosecutors loath to use informants as witnesses. Moreover, they are a generally unpredictable lot, and juries frequently discount their evidence on the theory that they may have embroidered their testimony to gain police favor. But the result-the fact that only a minority of informers...
It is strange and disturbing that the GSD totally passed over persons of this caliber and simply reelected virtually the same committee. I have some wellfounded objections to several of the persons elected and feel that two and possibly three ought to be disqualified for conflict of interest. But my...