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...should hope that Mr. Schorr, through the power of his pen and his vote, will continue, as I will, to prod the correction system into implementing the vast improvements it urgently needs. But let us not be slipshod and misdirected in pointing the accusatory finger; misplaced guilt is no less heinous a crime than its absolution. Mitchell Weiss
Merhige's reminder, delivered in his Richmond courtroom last week, was the toughest sentence ever imposed on a corporation in a pollution case: a $13.2 million fine to be paid by the Allied Chemical Corp. for discharging Kepone and other chemical wastes. Slipshod procedures in the manufacture of the deadly pesticide in Hopewell, Va., had forced the closing of the lower James River in Virginia to fishermen since December; more than 70 people, all employees of the now closed plant or members of their families, had been treated for Kepone poisoning, symptoms of which include brain and liver damage...
Long Odds. Such apparent inconsistencies are trivial when compared with the slipshod logic of one of Temple's major premises. He invokes the belief of such sympathetic star trackers as Astronomer Carl Sagan and Astro physicist I.S. Shklovski'ï that intelligent life probably exists elsewhere in our galaxy. Out of billions of planets, so the argument goes, statistical probability dic tates that there must be some that have evolved like earth. But Temple seems confused about probability. "The odds against life occurring fairly frequently within our galaxy are impossible ones," he writes. In fact, odds must be long...
...longer articles are often as slipshod as the layout. For instance, an article in the Spring issue, "Take as Directed," tells the story of a 1969 high school class that developed into a mass psychology project. It attempts to make a statement on fascism in America and suggests how easily it could happen here. But it makes no statement; and ironically, the editors have devoted four pages earlier in the issue to ascetic unto death California Governor Jerry Brown's prayer breakfast. The prayer breakfast is a favorite arm-twisting device of southern Democratic senators. Brown's was replete with...
Sprague sees this as Kafkaesque justice. More important, he looks upon it as a chance to fight against his pet outrage: slipshod standards in the criminal justice system. "I want to attack the plea bargaining in this case," he says angrily. "I want to make a mockery of what the state of New Jersey has done...