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Queen's Justice. On the other hand, the jam-up also allows knowing criminals to negotiate with harried prosecutors for a reduction of the charges in return for a guilty plea that will save the busy courts the time and expense of a trial. A 1968 survey of 136 accused muggers showed that 62% of them used such "plea bargaining" to get minuscule sentences for misdemeanors like petty larceny, which, strictly speaking, they did not commit. Moreover, a plea-bargained sentence often amounts to the time already served while waiting for trial. Mayor John Lindsay recently likened all this...
...reformers offer plenty. Current suggestions being tested include removal of parking violations from criminal courts and various schemes to release petty offenders without bail-for example, by issuing summonses for court appearances or by putting some consenting defendants on immediate probation without a trial or even a plea. At long last, a few cities are also discovering familiar business-management techniques. Philadelphia, for example, uses a computer for record keeping and to spot inefficiencies on the trial docket; the city is also moving lesser offenses out of regular courts. Charges that carry penalties of two years or less are handled...
...Senators who had vote against his defeated Supreme Court nominee. And that was just the beginning. What followed was a widening of the war, a statement telling students that they could expect to be shot if they participated in unruly campus protests, and, last week, a plea to American voters to give him a mandate to deal with the "thugs" he considers a threat to our society...
...Nixon Administration's insistence that inflation is being curbed no longer convinces all its business supporters. Fifteen chiefs of major U.S. corporations called at the White House early last week to repeat to President Nixon a plea that they had made earlier at the Business Council meeting. Inflation will not be ended, they said, until the Administration does something more to slow wage-and-benefit increases, especially in construction. Increases in major union settlements this year have been averaging 10% annually. The businessmen were not specific about just what action the Administration should take, but they seemed to want...
Professor Hoffmann's plea for a "well-conceived new design" in undergraduate education at Harvard strikes me as very reasonable and bold- and impracticable. To expect the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to legislate a new and universally applied conception of undergraduate education is to expect a miraculous consensus to overcome the Faculty in 1970 when there is no precedent for it. In fact, the only precedents for a radical change in educational theory and practice that Harvard College has ever seen have come when strong-willed presidents sought to institute reforms. Within the last few decades, when the Faculty...