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Silberman goes on to puncture the rightist dogma of severe punishment and electrocution enthusiasm. Certainty of punishment, not severity, deters crime; overcrowded, bestially violent American prisons pile punishment on to no recognizable end, and the animals they create of men make prison government impossible. "The fatal flaw in the traditional approach to prison government," Silberman writes, "is that by expecting the worst, it succeeds in bringing out the worst." Prison government might proceed more efficiently and humanely, indeed more constitutionally, by treating inmates like citizens in a community...
...heroes of this rural drama are the "big and efficient farmers" who "are giving the nation a lesson in Adam Smith economics." They calculate and compute and invest to pile up ever more profits like "Smith said capitalists should." Time fails to note that most farmers could make more money by stashing their assets in a bank vault and living off the interest. According to Time, the results of free market competition have been innovation, growing production and "reasonable costs to consumers...
...weeks after this, a Panther named Nelson Lee Malloy was found, moaning, under a pile of stones in the Nevada desert. He had been shot and left for dead. As a result, Malloy is paralyzed for life from the neck down. He reluctantly told police that he had helped two Panthers escape after the attempted assassination of Gray, and that the Panthers had tried to silence...
What Liverpudlians got for their generosity is no mere ostentatious pile of stone. The cathedral's clean, neo-Gothic lines and interior have already been widely praised; Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman, a connoisseur of architecture, pronounced it "one of great buildings of the world." Yet its architect, a Roman Catholic named Giles Scott, was a 22-year-old unknown when he chosen from among 102 competitors in 1903. Later Scott go on to design London's Waterloo Bridge and the massive Battersea power station, and to rebuild the bomb-gutted House of Commons after World...
REGULATORY REFORM. Carter will probably propose a "regulatory calendar" that would require all federal agencies to list the regulations that they intend to impose on business during the year, the effective dates and a cost-benefit analysis of each. The idea is to avoid a pile-up of regulations that would subject business to inflationary cost increases...