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...still offer their curriculum only to those pursuing the LL.B., even though many recognize that law is too important to be left to the legal profession. No law school offers a Ph.D. program in jurisprudence or the role of law; law students are not educated in a context of para-legal persons but in a quite autonomous enclave...
Current & Clear. Random House concedes that Webster's Third contains more words (it has 450,000 of the roughly half-million in the English language). Between parade and paradise, for example, the new dictionary omits such Webster's words-mostly medicalese-as para-dental, paradentitis, paraden-tium, paradentosis, parader-mal, paradesmose, paradiazine. Cerf argues that such entries are "words no one would ever use or has ever heard...
...only homeland that has been turned into an official Bantustan is the Transkei, a region of 16,500 square miles and 1.5 million Xhosa tribesmen in the state of Natal. With an elected Parliament of 45 members and Para mount Chief Kaiser Matanzima as Chief, the Transkei was granted semi-autonomy last year, and Verwoerd talks with apparent sincerity of eventual, full independence...
Carmichael encourages the Negro ghettos to form para-government institutions if it becomes necessary. "If you can't get what you want from the Boston school board, from one of your own," he said. If the white shop-keepers are charging high prices for rotten meat, kick them out of the ghettos and form cooperatives. If the police force refuses to promote one of the Negro police men to captain, then only invite the Negro police into the ghettos. If the draft tries to take the most vital element out of the ghettos to fight their racist wars, then...
...wonders what would happen if the Jews and the Irish, the Italians and Chinese all followed Carmichael's philosophy and set up para-governments which worked for their particular racial and ethnic interests. Isn't that exactly what the Democratic system tries to avoid with a system of cross-cutting pressure groups. Obviously the American system has failed with the Negro minority, but is an intensified ghetto the answer...