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Where do lawyers get off sneering at the competence of laymen? Lawyers' competence is too often reserved for wheeling, dealing and flimflam rather than law and justice. People should not be merely fair game for the legal profession to prey...
...sputtering economies of less-developed countries. To combat what he calls this "Latin Americization" of the United States, he proposes concerted political efforts to both stimulate world-wide demand for American products and national consensus for greater efficiency and equity at home. Although he doesn't fall prey to the chauvinism that taints much current political discussion, Muller's proposals for dealing with the rest of the world are no less than imperialsitic. Falling back on one of the few unqualified successes of American post-war policy, the Marshall Plan, he suggests a global analogue that would spur industrial development...
What really riles Hanson is the Government regulations that hamper his ranching. "Big Brother has got his arm solidly around you," he says. The Environmental Protection Agency will not let him use weed spray on his feed crops com animal poisons against the coyotes that prey on his calves. He complains that the Bureau of Land Management will not plow back more of the ranchers' grazing fees into improving the range, and that he must seek permission from the Army Corps of Engineers to build a culvert along a stream on his own property. "It's rules...
Durst and his fellow seniors on the Crimson have witnessed inordinate adversity. The 1978 squad lost its four games by two, five, one and seven points, respectively. Last year's team suffered through what can only be described as a nightmare, as quarterback after quarterback fell prey to injury. This year, however, the Crimson has clamped down in the clutch, and Chuck Durst simply ascribes that success to "character." Coach Joe Restic ascribes that success to Chuck Durst...
...group. But to accept the burden of white America's failure is something we must never do. Mr. Gershman and Mr. Robert Klitgaard (as spokesmen for the dominant white class) will always try to put us into an ideological trick-bag. It is important that we never fall prey to such pseudo-intellectualism and militant racist assumptions...