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Philosophy has historically been the province of a select few. If, as Thoreau said, "The great mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation," their anguish can usually be traced to social conditions, to conditions made by men that can be changed by men. Workers control in the factories of this country, for example, would do much toward eradicating the sense of futility felt by the people who labor in them. The bigger questions can be examined only after this sort of immediate, resolvable problem has been tackled and a new society is being created. In this sense, then...
Under the new system a student would select from stock a kit which would include paint, a brush, spackle, and sandpaper. All of these tools would be disposable and would eliminate the problem of retrieving the expensive tools now issued...
Richard G. Sterns, a first year law student, will testify this morning at 10 a.m. before the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaigning--the Senate Watergate Committee...
SCHLESINGER: Both Vice Presidents Colfax and Calhoun, the two cases often cited, involved actions done before they became Vice President. But they don't provide a clear precedent. In the Calhoun case, the House accepted the responsibility to appoint a select committee to investigate charges made against Calhoun some years before. In the Colfax case, it declined to do so. In the Agnew case, not only do the two precedents glance in different directions, but we aren't even clear that the complaints against him do not spill over into his vice presidency...
...critical point is that the highest national interest lies in the speediest resolution of all this. The House may or may not turn out to have a function that coexists with that of the judiciary. There was nothing to be lost and everything to be gained in appointing a select committee and getting a process started that is bound to be lengthy...