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Harvard libertarians also split with Ergo over its frequent sallies beyond the realm of politics. "Randians are too moralistic. They believe in absolute standards--Rand's absolute standards--and sometimes they get a little too strident," Donal Rucker '78, a member of the Sons of Liberty, says. In the thousands of pages Rand has written, she carries her philosophy of "rational self-interest, egoism,. individualism, and capitalism" beyond its obvious application to social structure, into fields like art and personal conduct. Ergo holds that only romantic art is good art, for example. A recent display of neon sculpture by Boston...
Charged with taking $850 in rent deposits for houses he did not own, Donald Rowell, 31, decided that he could do a better job with his defense than could Alice Rucker, his court-appointed attorney. So the Detroit defendant took over his case and put an unusual witness on the stand, none other than Lawyer Rucker. Now, asked self-appointed Attorney Rowell in his best courtroom manner, "have I ever lied...
...Witness Rucker: Do you really want me to answer that...
...Witness Rucker: Mr. Rowell, you have lied to me so many different times I cannot even begin to count them...
...announcer for the Rucker summer basketball tournament in Harlem was groping for the best way to express his enthusiasm over the new court phenomenon. The youngster heard himself called "Houdini," "The Claw," "Black Moses"-and none of the nicknames pleased him. He took the announcer aside. Softly but deliberately he said, "Call me The Doctor.' " Julius Winfield Erving Jr., 21, was already demonstrating that he would...