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Articles by less famous polemicists have also had considerable impact. From exile in Algiers, Black Panther Richard Moore wrote a piece accusing Panther Huey P. Newton of substituting slogans for action, castigating the Times as "the organ of the ruling class" and condemning the "Fascist Farce of a Trial Presided over by the evil likes of [Judge] John Murtagh," from whose court Moore had fled. As the Times clearly intended, its Op-Ed has provided an occasional beam of fresh light on familiar topics. Edward C. Banfield, a professor of government at Harvard, described "the lower class" as not necessarily...
...disagreed with him, and that respect surely enhanced the court's authority as well as his own. To be sure, Justices do make value choices. But in such cases, Columbia's Herbert Wechsler has said, they "are bound to function otherwise than as a naked power organ. This calls for facing how [those choices] can be asserted to have any legal quality." In short, why should anyone listen to the Justices? "The answer, I suggest, inheres primarily in that they are-or are obliged to be-entirely principled. A principled decision is one that rests on reasons with...
...Bulletin ended up giving us very good coverage, which is very important," Christian said yesterday, "because the alumni see it as an organ of the University, although it is independent...
...Blachly's thinking is the fact that suicides decrease in wartime and other periods demanding personal sacrifice; then, he says, "the intensity of egoism and anomie is diminished as the individual participates in a common social goal." To put his theory into practice, Blachly proposes an alliance between organ-transplant centers and some of the many suicide-prevention services that are now in existence. The services, which usually offer psychiatric help to callers, would refer appropriate cases to transplant centers as possible donors. The customary two-or three-month waiting period before surgery would give psychiatrists time to study...
...about five minutes, the machine does a job that would take a technician several hours. It also sketches out the area of the body involved and plots the paths the radiation will take to reach the affected organ. "It would be impossible for the human mind to perform the same task," says Dr. Edward Sternick, the radiation physicist who helped design the program...