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...have not been demonstrated to be relevant to the grand jury's inquiry, this would not justify his refusals to answer," the court wrote. And it decided further that "the reason for the claimed (scholarly) privilege lies not in the importance of protecting the officials and other sources per se but in the importance of preserving the flow of their communications via scholars to the public domain. This underlying rationale falls short of immunizing a scholar from testifying about conversations with those who are not his sources...
...feeling within himself seemed a better way to reach people than telling them what to do. From this vantage point, Dylan took on a child-like role, exploring himself and his surroundings with something of a wide-eyed humility. The results are songs more human, if less humanitarian per se...
...stop right-cheer," drawled the sandy-haired American speeding in a car along a bumpy highway outside São Paulo, Brazil. What had caught his darting blue eyes was a sign on an open lot proclaiming Vende-Se. "That means 'for sale'-and those are the only words I understand in this language," the American explained. Then he bounded out of the car and swiftly paced off the dimensions of the property, rattling a staccato of questions to a tag-along group of aides: "Who is the owner? What's the tax rate? How many cars...
Such an approach requires large amounts of money and expertise, and some states have begun to supply both In 1966 Massachusetts passed the Com munity Mental Health Act, which se up regional boards to evaluate need; and plan facilities. Says Dr. Milton Greenblatt, the state's commissioner o mental health: "We're trying to phase down the institutions and close the snake pits." One large facility has been closed while the patient load at other, has been reduced. The Hathorne State School, a new center serving a region with a population of 900,000, provide in-and outpatient...
Some behavioral scientists, philosophers and aestheticists believe that violence in the arts is not bad per se and that it may, in fact, be the best means of inspiring a horror of violence. Brutality in films, asserts Robert Lifton, "can illuminate and teach us about our relationship to violence." The Godfather, he believes, provides that kind of illumination by brilliantly contrasting the Corleone family's sunny private life and its brutally dark professional life. Critic Robert Hatch rejects that view, calling the movie a "chronicle of corruption, savage death and malignant sentimentality" that wreaks harm by forcing the viewer...