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Just a week after nearly upsetting Midwest powerhouse Purdue, the Crimson garnered the majority of the first-place finishers (five), but could not overcome Princeton's depth to prevail...
...concession to common sense by arguing that America should preserve the option to sell arms abroad to nations such as Israel. But what makes Israel so different from other friendly Third World nations Israel is indeed an ally. And it was American arm, sales that enabled Israel to prevail in the 1967 and 1973 wars. American arms will enable nations friendly to us to withstand equally grave military pressures...
Although thematically urgent, the new novel exhibits some escapist tendencies. At the end of the book, Tolm suddenly blurts, "Some form of socialism must come, must prevail." That forms of socialism already prevail in most modern democracies should have been obvious. Furthermore, the statement is a surprise coming from a man who heads a newspaper syndicate and is president of his nation's most powerful association of business interests. Still, aging Fritz Tolm is a good choice for the job. He is not one of those suspect postwar tycoons who have had their SS tattoos removed by a discreet...
...Poland's fate to be sealed by European apathy and U.S. caution? The answer is probably yes, unless tough sanctions are applied now against the Soviet Union. It's unrealistic to wait for the forces of moderation and reason to prevail...
...Economics of Justice has serious flaws, to be sure. The passages of turgid, eye-glazing prose that seem to prevail, require an economics or law background. Posner prefaces each of his four treatises in professorial, outline-on-the-board fashion ("In this chapter, I ask how...," "I hope to challenge...," "I will sketch a model...). With such broad scope, The Economics of Justice cannot avoid a certain disjointedness, and the author's faith in the wonder of human rationality poses a familiar problem for questioning readers. Yet the incisiveness of Posner's ideas shine brilliantly through the flaws...