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...authority by focusing on the needs and aspirations of its citizens rather than by pursuing expansionist aims. In addition, the Soviets would need to abandon the notion that their security depends on threatening the security of others. Lenin's old dictum of kto-kogo (who-whom) -- or who will prevail over whom -- would have to give way to a concept of live and let live...
Roger Sherman of Connecticut offered a compromise. Why, he asked on June 11, could not one chamber of the Congress have seats allotted according to population, while the other preserved the principle of one vote for each state? Eventually, of course, that was the proposal that would prevail, but Sherman's compromise met a predictable fate. The big states, having a majority, ignored...
...said by and large you don't win against the police department. They didn't understand that I knew I could beat them on my own turf, the media. Most people who can communicate, communicate. Those who can't, carry guns. I thought surely at some point sanity would prevail. But they would not give up, and so it went all the way to the Supreme Court...
...Sullivan, the Justices held that vigorous comment about public officials' performances of their duties was vitally deserving of protection. So it added to the traditional elements of libel -- falsity and damage to reputation -- a third factor involving the journalist's state of mind: "actual malice." In order to prevail in court, public officials would have to show that a reporter knew the story to be false or showed "reckless disregard of whether it was false." That provision turned out to have some unforeseen negative consequences for media defendants. It has allowed plaintiffs to review journalists' notes, internal memorandums, video-tape...
Novelist Andre Brink (Knowledge of the Night), some of whose work has been banned in South Africa, agrees: "If faced with the ultimate choice between sharing and going under, the Masada complex need not prevail. There is still a chance -- small and diminishing rapidly -- of entering into the kind of dialectic with the present which may open up the future." Frederik van Zyl Slabbert was leader of the official opposition, the Progressive Federal Party, until he resigned in disgust last year, so his criticisms are hardly new. But he is also a former professor of sociology and thus well tuned...