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...bill allows a public servant to defend himself in court on the basis that his illegal conduct "was required or authorized by law to carry out the defendant's authority." This provision would have allowed the Watergate conspirators to claim they were just following orders. S.1 would let them out of jail. And in what may become the government's most effective weapon to keep the public uninformed, the bill would allow a bureaucrat at almost any level of government to classify material only vaguely related to national security...
Anna Snitkina, stenographer, stands across the street from a dingy building in the artisans' district of St. Petersburg, and thinks: This is the apartment house where Raskolnikov must have lived. Timidly she climbs the stairs and knocks on the door of the second floor apartment. A servant with a green shawl draped around her shoulders lets Anna in, and the stenographer thinks: this must be the shawl worn by Mrs. Marmeladov. Anna follows the servant down a dark hallway, into a dimly lit study and thinks: This is the desk where the great man must have written Crime and Punishment...
...have been amazed at the number of Americans who have taken it upon themselves to judge a public servant for his activities in pursuit of happiness, rather than his capabilities in handling his elected job. I still fail to understand how Wilbur Mills' relationship with me could in any way reflect on his ability to write tax laws. When certain people were calling upon him for favors and guidance, I doubt if they prefaced their requests with questions about his personal life-be it sex, alcohol or whatever-and I have no doubt these same people are not asking...
Above all: what goes on in the "psyche" of the wiretapper? What passes through the mind of a blameless civil servant who is only doing his duty, who, we might say, is required to do his duty (albeit reluctantly) by the exigencies of earning a living if not of obedience to orders? What does he think when obliged to monitor a telephone conversation...
THEIR BEWYSBOEKS--required identification booklets--say that John Kani and Winston Ntshona are private servant employees of Athol Fugard, the white South African playwright with whom they have collaborated to "devise" Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island, now in Boston for their last performances in the United States. "Actor" is not recognized by apartheid South Africa as a possible profession for blacks, so Kani and Ntshona, the best actors you will have a chance to see on stage for a long time, remain second-class citizens, despite a three-year international tour that has garnered universal rave reviews...