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...vilest deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air," wrote Oscar Wilde. In the California prison system, for years one of the most violent in the U.S., something quite different has taken root: Transcendental Meditation. At Folsom Prison, a state-run storehouse for repeat offenders, more than 250 inmates over the past three years have stopped hating and hitting each other to sit quietly and think their mantras. Encouraged by Folsom's example, authorities at San Quentin ("the Q") and Deuel Vocational Institution have opened their doors to TM programs. The state parole board has asked...
Brown tuned up for what everyone hopes will be a repeat performance with a spectacular (16 for 29, 260 yards, 2 touchdowns) showing against Brown last week. And though he does not have the likes of Jim Curry or Larry Hobdy as targets this year, wideouts John Macleod and Rich Horner have been unquestionably more dependable, though less flamboyant...
...even if she, humble as ever, could only repeat at the end of the interview "I still don't know quite why you're writing this," others may now have an inkling of the reason...
...State Department official was content to say that Vietnam "was their problem now." In seeing Vietnam only as a semi-satellite nation of the Soviet Union, U.S. diplomats repeat, in an updated, streamlined, fully modern form, the same mistake of seeing Vietnam as a pawn of the Superpowers that got the U.S. involved in the war in the first place. During the war the U.S. sought to "save" the South to "contain" China. Now the whole region is seen only as a playpen for the client nations of the two Communist superpowers. The legitimate bilateral concerns that...
...steps earlier, inflation would be lower, the economy would be stronger and the President would be more popular. Hindsight, of course, is one of the few cheap things in this inflationary age. But it has value as a guide to those who do not wish to be condemned to repeat the past. In short, Carter may learn from previous mistakes -his own and those of others...