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...than they are today and the purpose of the house was to provide a place for students who could not afford to live in the River Houses. From the beginning its members prized their independence and espoused a fierce egalitarianism. Over the years they have followed Bertrand Russell's precept that the first duty of the citizen is to distrust his leaders...
...point when he is worried about the spread of an automatic, "emotional mistrust to Government in general." He calls for "a measure of voluntary restraint, an implicit agreement among the major groups and interests in our society that none will apply their powers to the fullest." Not a bad precept-and not an easy one to apply in a system that depends on adversary relationships, among press, politicians and courts, as well as relationships of trust...
...away, literally, with murder. Civil libertarians, on the other hand, protest that bargains enable the state to get convictions in shaky cases. With serious criminals apparently getting off too lightly and the innocent sometimes getting shafted, plea bargaining has a deservedly disastrous public image and clearly violates the precept of Felix Frankfurter that "justice must satisfy the appearance of justice...
...their brave new ideas that they lost sight of marketing realities. To take only one example, Riverton, ten miles from Rochester, N.Y., built town houses in tight clusters surrounded by open space. But would-be home buyers in the area were not impressed by this good planning precept; they wanted separate houses with spacious yards. Says Otto Stolz, director of the new-communities program of the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department: "Only a limited number of people want to be guinea pigs...
Rhodes and other House Republicans are now challenging the generally accepted precept that impeachment is similar to a grand jury proceeding, in that only "probable cause" of presidential wrongdoing must be demonstrated, and the House's responsibility is merely to send the case to the Senate to be judged. Appealing to institutional prestige, Rhodes argues that the House would "look bad" if it impeached Nixon and the articles were overwhelmingly rejected in the Senate votes on them...