Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALTERED STATES Directed by Ken Russell; Screenplay by Sidney Aaron...
...United Corrugated Box Co. of Boston yesterday gave Cambridge 200 boxes--nowhere near enough to hold the flood of donations pouring in from all over the city. Volunteers from the Rindge and Latin School packed some clothes, but tons more are lying loose at the public works garage on Sidney...
...years ago, Sidney Smith, then 50, seemed to be living out an American dream. He had been serving for nine years as a federal district judge in Atlanta. The job offered challenge, prestige, a $40,000 salary and lifetime tenure followed by retirement at full pay. Yet that year Smith walked away from the bench to return to the private practice of law. The main reason: money. "I had one child in prep school and two in college, and I was borrowing all the time," recalls Smith, who now earns far more than he used to. "Inflation just started eating...
...Sidney Verba '53, professor of Government, says he's unsure how to re-reform the system, but recommends strengthening the parties, perhaps by channeling federal matching funds through the party, not to individual candidates, to dole out. Like many of his colleagues, Verba calls the suggestion of "regional primaries" a promising possibility. Under most models for such a system, primaries would be held in four or five regions, with a limited placed on the time and money any candidate could spend on each clash. A one-day national primary, however, draws no support from political experts here. "That...
...returned to the courtroom to face Judge Owens again. And his case is also being reviewed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Meanwhile he has remained in prison at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base. In a one-page broadside, New York University Philosopher Sidney Hook blasted Judge Owens' decision as "one of the crassest illustrations of ill-considered and unjustified interventions of our imperial judiciary into the educational process." If discussions of promotion and tenure are to adhere to academic standards, Hook insisted, confidentiality is required without fear of "resentment and retaliatory responses...