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...newspaper editors involved were faced with a stickier problem: how to handle the stolen information. Inevitably such documents can contain inaccurate, outrageous "raw" data based on unchecked hearsay. Attorney General Mitchell's statement was a direct plea to the press to suppress the information at hand. Yet the Washington Post, quickly followed by the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, decided to publish accounts of the theft as well as the general contents of some of the documents. Said Ben Bagdikian, the Post's national editor, after a telephone call from Mitchell: "We thought...
...Harvard Department of Philosophy were competent to deal with any issue dispassionately, your colleagues there would be quick to point out the logical peculiarities of your plea. I hope-but do not expect-that some other department may contain an instructor in whom logic is conjoined with courage sufficient to demonstrate that the irony of your argument is comparable to that of the Eleatic Zeno, except for the fact that Zeno knew what he was doing...
...Jewish students complain that the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) has repeatedly ignored their requests for meal rebates. The day after CHUL buried a two-year old rebate plea by the Jewish students in a sub-committee, 550 students collecting money for the Black Panther Fund petitioned CHUL to reimburse them for skipped meals. CHUL passed a rebate plan in a special meeting four days later...
Hovels. Young's most publicized plea was for a "domestic Marshall plan" to help U.S. blacks recover from "more than three centuries of abuse, humiliation, segregation and bias...
...just found for the Philadelphia judges. Because the three branches of state government are coequal, said the court, "the independent judiciary must possess rights and powers coequal with its functions and duties, including the right and power to protect itself against any impairment thereof." To the city's plea of poverty, the court said: "The deplorable financial conditions in Philadelphia must yield to the constitutional mandate that the judiciary shall be free and independent and able to provide an efficient and effective system of justice. The court does not have unlimited power to obtain from the city whatever sums...