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Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology, and Gerald Platt, lecturer on Sociology, are conducting an analysis of the academic professions in America, which, according to Platt, should "dispell the misconception of what academia...
Results of the pilot program indicate that the large research-oriented university is now the prevalent model in American education. Despite this, Parsons and Platt found that the image of the faculty member who wants to spend all his time doing research is largely a myth...
...bound by that finding, British-born Judge Harold G. Platt, a member of Tanzania's High Court, spent seven days reviewing the evidence and making up his mind, before announcing his rather qualified agreement...
Concluded Judge Platt: "It may be that with more astute investigation the accused would have been found guilty, but then on the other hand, it is possible that it might have proved to be a clear case of accident. The charge has not been sufficiently proved against the accused so as to enable me to find that he is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. While the accused must therefore carry with him the suspicion that he may have been responsible for his wife's death, he must, in justice, be acquitted and set free...
...eerie screech of water birds sounded through the open-ended courtroom in Mwanza, a dusty little Tanzanian town on the shore of Lake Victoria. Solemn in his red robes and white wig, British-born Judge Harold Platt, a member of Tanzania's High Court, stepped up to the bench. Ededem Effiwatt, the ponderous, coal-black prosecutor, made ready to represent the state. And an unarmed African policeman stood guard by the prisoner in the dock. Everywhere he looked, Peace Corpsman Bill Haywood Kinsey, 24, a North Carolinian who had been charged with the murder of his wife, was reminded...