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...book's basic thesis, which was reported in Foreign Affairs and TIME last spring, is both conventional and incontestable. It is that the nation's four basic fuels-petroleum, natural gas, coal and nuclear-are either depleting or face strong public opposition, and new energy sources must be phased in before the old are totally exhausted. The surprising aspect of Energy Future is its optimistic assessment of the potential of solar energy and conservation to carry the load as those "new sources...
...Whitfield sentenced Robert W. Attwood, 20, who had stolen $10 worth of beer from a neighbor's garage, to four to 25 years in jail. On the same day, the same judge sentenced Mary Murray, a motor vehicles official, to five years probation for embezzling $8,000 in public funds...
...Yankelovich, Skelly and White poll of the general public, judges, lawyers and community leaders last year ranked public confidence in state and local courts below many other major American institutions, including the medical profession, police, business and public schools. Too much law, too many lawsuits and too many lawyers have all combined to overwork the judicial machinery. But the final responsibility for the courts rests with the people who run them: the 28,000 state and local judges, 1,083 federal administrative law judges who hear disputed claims brought to the regulatory agencies, and nearly 700 federal judges charged with...
...unaccustomed roles. Increasingly, judges, state and federal, can be found ordering government boards and agencies to obey the law. When the boards balk, as they often do, judges end up running school boards, welfare agencies, mental hospitals and prisons. Just last month, for instance, a Boston judge placed 67 public housing projects into receivership under court control because they had been mismanaged by the Boston housing authority. Such decisions often require judges to rule on specific questions like garbage removal from tenements, proper bus routes for schoolchildren and minimum hot water temperatures for prison inmates...
Within their courtrooms, judges are virtual autocrats. Many will not even talk to the press; thanks to last month's Supreme Court decision in Gannett vs. DePasquale, they are now closing off their courtrooms. Already, at least 39 judges have banned press or public or both from pretrial hearings or trials.* Lawyers, out of necessity, bow before the bench. "The job corrupts people," says Jack Frankel, executive officer of the California Commission on Judicial Performance. "The judge says, 'I'm going on vacation.' Everyone says, 'Fine, Judge.' The judge says, 'I'm coming in late.' Again, it's 'Fine, Judge...