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...recruiter's financial incentive is the reason Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, banned Southwestern from soliciting on the Harvard campus two years ago and the reason he will summon a couple of Southwestern salesmen to his office next week...
...joined by a prissy, middle-aged art connoisseur and dealer, Richard Landau (Michael Lipton), who has come in for an "exploratory." This is about as comforting to Landau as seeing Charon beckon for the ferry ride across the Styx. What Parmigian tries to do is to summon up in him the image of man's courage in extremity. This image is buried in Landau's boyhood memories when he saw an old Jew (Paul Sparer) rounded up by the Nazis...
Last week such access was restricted further when the high court reduced the authority of federal courts to interfere in some state court civil proceedings. Specifically at issue: under New York law, a creditor with an unpaid judgment can summon the debtor to testify about his assets. If the debtor fails to show up, he may be cited for contempt of court and ultimately sent to jail. A lower federal court held the New York procedure unconstitutional. The Supreme Court reversed the ruling, declaring that the debtor should have raised his constitutional claim in the state court. Expanding the doctrine...
...States have been almost synonymous terms: metaphorically, in the boundless vitality of the American people; literally, in the seemingly inexhaustible supplies of cheap fuel that made possible the transformation of a handful of impoverished colonies into history's richest nation. Frontier mythmakers celebrated the idea that Americans could summon limitless supplies of energy for whatever needed doing, most notably in the tales about Paul Bunyan, who could harness his ox Babe to straighten out the bends in rivers with a single tug. If Faust, the archetypal European, believed that the world was created anew each morn, Americans...
These are worthy goals. They can be achieved. But they summon a different dimension of moral conviction than that of a simpler past. They require the stamina to persevere amid ambiguity, and the courage to hold fast to what we believe in while recognizing that at any one time our hopes are likely to be only gradually fulfilled. It is the essence of moral purposes that they appear absolute and universal. It is the essence of foreign policy to take into account the views of others who may also see their values in this manner...