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...auction as an interested observer, not as a buyer or seller. In no way did I see anything negative in action or intent. John Skow failed to mention that Mr. Hale made a plea for any conservationist, or anyone else for that matter, to stop him or let him know immediately if they saw anything wrong. Cutting the antlers off an elk is like cutting a person's nails. The people involved in this enterprise may be in it to make a dollar, but they genuinely love the animals...
...unapologetic Democrat," Arizona's Governor Bruce Babbitt: "The federal system is in complete disarray." The Nation al Governors' Association last summer unanimously demanded that Congress and the President create a commission to diagnose the whole governmental apparatus and propose some sorting out of powers. An equally urgent plea for a realignment of powers came last summer from the Advisory C mission on Intergovernmental Relations, whose members include Congressmen, Governors, state legislators, mayors, county officials and private citizens...
...difficulty, and the act sags until Frederick Neumann, as the John Huston-like director John Bean, takes things over. Neumann shines as the horny, hearty old American ("It's a simple name--I am a simple man.") whose vision of the revolution comprises mostly blood and tits; his prostrated plea for directorship of the film salvages the first act. Here, too, we learn the significance of the weighty title: "Washington" is to be the name of the film, and "has it legs?" is movie parlance for "will...
Cucinotta, 35, has never seen the Supreme Court. His turf is Philadelphia's criminal courts; his forte is plea bargaining with prosecutors, not constitutional advocacy. But in a few months, he will be in the high bench's marble temple in Washington to argue an important case involving the right to counsel...
...larger conspiracy. This attack objects to the sociobiology stance which insists that humans are passive vehicles for either our genes or our environment. Strongly anti-determinist, the proponents of this argument insist that humans are active agents who shape their own destinies. In short, it is a plea for the power of free will. This position largely ignores the material in Wilson's book rather than confronting...