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Fisher apparently succeeded because the next FBI memo from Gleason noted that Buckley contacted him and said "he had changed his mind considerably about the matter and was now of the opinion that the articles appearing in The Harvard Crimson were vicious and insidious in addition to being journalistically poor." Buckley then wrote a letter, now part of an ever-expanding FBI file on The Crimson, to arrange a forum between the FBI and members of the Yale community to "outline to them the actual roll [sic] of the FBI in the state and community levels." Buckley offered himself...
...teams expect more and more that they will have a shot at the golden ring on the national sports merry-go-round, the pressures and the frustration mount. It is a vicious, self-perpetuating cycle that must be dealt with now, before too many more athletes drift throught the Ivy League--and through Harvard--retaining a bitter aftertaste for college life. Such disillusion should not be passively endured, especially not in the Ivy League, where you are told to expect Utopia...
...they underrate the pain of being utterly in the power of the state and closely restricted in personal activity. Under such circumstances, there is a decisive loss of liberty. Perhaps society's main gain from alternative punishment is the elimination of the risk of nondangerous offenders being turned vicious by sheer exposure to prison life. The truth is that a great many convicts would offer no violent risk to society if they were at large. Perhaps half of all prisoners are clearly dangerous, though various experts would argue that the percentage is greater or smaller. In any case...
...feisty essays demonstrate, over the past four decades the teacher-philosopher has seen no reason to alter his course. He did not need Alexander Solzhenitsyn to inform him of the Gulag; back in the '30s Hook condemned the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, nations whose politics employed "vicious ersatz theologies." The Supreme Court's pendulum decisions on criminal justice have found Hook unchanged; he has long advocated the rights of the victim: "When we read that a man whose speeding car had been stopped by a motorcycle policeman, who without a search warrant forced him to open...
...abuse by including the perspectives of four maverick representatives of the music business. Management agent Maxine Gregg, who orchestrated Gordon's wildly successful "homecoming," claims that many jazz musicians could succeed like Gordon if they were willing to do some long-range career planning, but she concedes that a vicious cycle must be broken first...