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...University has armed itself with the employer's oldest argument in refusing the Federation of Teaching Fellows' request for a raise in pay: we just don't have the money. It may seem faintly ridiculous for an institution with Harvard's riches to plead poverty, but' the University is clearly in a financial squeeze. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences' budget contains a substantial deficit this year, and will probably run one next year too. The Federation's suggestions would cost Harvard $700,000 at a time when, as President Pusey said last week, "We're going to see more...
...issue of The New Republic, Sanford Levinson and Doris Kearns plead for the creation of a third party in 1968. An independent anti-war candidate for President, they argue, could "displace" enough of the regular Democratic vote to elect a moderate Republican like Charles Percy...
Inadmissible Evidence. Skeptics may well ask: Is prejudicial reporting really a problem? After all, only about 10% of U.S. criminal defendants plead not guilty and stand trial. Only a fraction get into the newspapers: from 1955 to 1965, U.S. papers devoted only 3% of their space to crime news. Americans believe that publicity is vital to justice; the press has often dug up evidence that exonerated as well as implicated defendants. Inflammatory reporting is on the wane. Even if it recurs, the Supreme Court's Sheppard decision ordered trial judges to combat it with long available devices. They should...
...frees a guilty client for technical reasons; he gets praise, money and prestige for defeating justice. Isn't it time that lawyers, before admission to the bar, take a sort of Hippocratic oath that when clients admit their guilt to them, they will advise the clients to plead guilty...
Crucial Decision. The scheme was effectively killed on April 3, 1954, when Dulles and Radford met with eight legislative leaders to plead for Congress' support. Johnson, who was among the legislators, reportedly asked how many allies had been invited to join with the U.S. Because of the shortage of time, none had, and the lawmakers told Dulles that Congress would not support an attack without allied support...