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Further evidence of the Israeli government's sensitivity on the Palestinian question came to light last week when it became known that a ministerial censorship committee had prevented former Premier Yitzhak Rabin from including in his memoirs a first-person account of the expulsion of 50,000 Palestinian civilians from their homes near Tel Aviv during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Some of Rabin's former colleagues disputed his account; the censors' action was presumably based on the argument that any discussion of the subject by former officials tends to damage Israel's reputation overseas...
...have a broad vision of the court as an instrument for social reform. Nor is he particularly concerned with "judicial restraint" or the limits of the court's power. Rather, observes Georgetown University Law Professor Dennis J. Hutchinson, "Burger votes the way he thinks a right-thinking person would vote. He applies middle-class values and his own common sense." The Chiefs opinion in Wisconsin vs. Yoder, which ruled that the state could not force Amish parents to send their children to school, is an example. It had "less to do with the First Amendment freedom of religion than...
...remain. Arthur Jaffe, professor of Mathematical Physics, is one of them. Jaffe, who won the Heinemann Prize for mathematical physics this past week, contends that there's a good reason for the traditional lag: "the awarding of the Nobel Prize at too young an age can conceivably hamper a person's career. It focuses the attention, the publicity, in such a special way. You're so much in the spotlight, and your science suffers correspondingly." But Glashow, while feeling the immediate pressures of the prize and the extent to which they impinge on his study, does not agree...
...voting against the CCA members on issues like school reorganization. Maynard watches out for vocational education, and Fantini protects bilingual programs while forcing the council to spend carefully. The third incumbent, David J. Holway, has provided the swing vote between independent and convention blocs, and calls himself the "boat person" of Cambridge politics...
Next to each of the names on the ballot is a blank box, in which voters must pencil a ranking. ("Do Not Use X Marks," the ballot warns.) Instead, pick your favorite candidate and mark him down as number one. The second-best person for the job should get your number two, and so on, all the way up until 23. Many people give up after eight or nine names because votes are unlikely to be meaningful after that point. "People do all kinds of crazy things--they mark X's, they cross out names, they write slogans...