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...Following Morris' prescriptions and proscriptions, Butner will allow a prisoner to select from such programs as dental technician training; college, high school or literacy courses; and counseling for drug or alcohol abuse. He will be free to pass up all of them-and even to transfer to another prison after the first three months. Because the convict's release date cannot be affected by his choices, there is no incentive to "act" rehabilitated in order to win parole. His prison time will be extended, however, if an inmate is found guilty of a serious disciplinary offense...
...will continue to be, a closed and repressive totalitarian state. There is no evidence that the proposed facility will be founded on education principles any "higher" than those already observed in the state-dominated educational system. The presence of Edward L. Keenan Jr., professor of History, and a select minority of American educators on the governing board will make state meddling in the affairs of the school--which is bound to occur--all the more embarrassing...
...volume, 815-page report released last week by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was 15 months in the making. It documents as never before how the White House and the baronies of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency took the law into their own hands in the cause of preserving liberty. To cure the sweeping excesses, the eleven-member Church committee-so named for its chairman, Idaho Democrat Frank Church-proposed some sweeping reforms, 183 in all. Yet many of the key reforms may well be gutted or killed by the full Senate...
...last problem with the book is curely circumstantial. While Ungar dug deeper and deeper into the FBI, coming up with heretofore unprinted information, he didn't count on Senate Select Committees beating him to the punch. As Ungar said in an interview here last month, it's frustrating to watch all these disclosures appear daily, especially revelations about COINTELPRO that he was the first to unearth. "I wanted to write something that would last beyond tomorrow's headlines," Ungar said. With this well-organized barrage, unloaded with an analysis that day-to-day journalists can't stop to churn...
Because businesses select from applicant pools of equally skilled whites and minorities, employers no longer hire minority applicants voluntarily, Allison said. When courts had to impose requirements, affirmative action died, he said...