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...loved political issue in U.S. history. Yet it is painfully apparent that millions of Americans who would never think of themselves as lawbreakers, let alone criminals, are taking increasing liberties with the legal codes that are designed to protect and nourish their society. Indeed, there are moments today-amid outlaw litter, tax cheating, illicit noise and motorized anarchy-when it seems as though the scofflaw represents the wave of the future. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to committing supposedly minor derelictions as a matter of course. Already, Riesman says, the ethic...
This newspaper has long supported the legality of abortion, based as it is on the rights of privacy and autonomy. But minds do differ, and those that find abortion repugnant have every right to seek to outlaw it--by the accepted methods of constitutional amendment or judicial reversal. The legacy of Roe plainly will not be a harmonious resolution of the abortion controversy. But it need not be violence, deception, or constitutional subversion...
...your Essay "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" [Dec. 20], when will our society re-evaluate its use of capital punishment? We, who like to think of ourselves as responsible and humane, should outlaw this practice...
...better and that equitable deals can be made. We've got to get over our disillusionment with détente and put aside the idea that the Soviets will always get two of everything for our one and the notion that the Soviet Union is an outlaw nation and must be so treated...
...Reggie's gang and his American Indian partner. Despite their natural antipathies. Nolte and Murphy learn to rely on each other. The plot fits securely within the Holly wood tradition of fine escapist movies. A typical Western followed the teeming up of the conscientious lawman with the charismatic outlaw to defeat some psychopath or Mexican general. Inevitably, the two heroes soon realized that under their white or black hats they were pretty much the same guy, and when the lawman finally turned in his temporary partner he always shed a poignant tear over what might have been a great friendship...