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Wrote Justice Lewis Powell for the majority: "To the extent that [prison] conditions are restrictive and even harsh, they are part of the penalty that criminal offenders pay for their offenses against society." Such conditions would be cruel and unusual, Powell went on, only if they inflicted "unnecessary or wanton pain" or were "grossly disproportionate" to the severity of the inmates' crimes...
Atlanta's 60% black population has been terrified by the wanton and unsolved slayings of black children. President Reagan last week announced that the city's request for an extra $1.5 million, on top of nearly $1 million in federal funds already approved, would be granted to help carry on the investigation of the killings. Twenty bodies have been recovered, but the potential number of victims grew to 22 when the name of Joseph Bell, 15, who had been missing since March 3, was added to the list. Atlanta has a worsening problem in other crimes as well. The city...
...author might argue that literary attitudes have percolated through the cul ture. But if businessmen in fiction and film are often the bad guys, more often it is the underclasses who are represented as wanton, greedy criminals...
...Crimson's wanton disregard for the derelict fallout from these undocumented statements made by a Harvard professor reknowned for his "shoddy" research (i.e. his foreign students study) and belonging to a department that is presently being investigated by the U.S. Government for its failure to comply with affirmative action policies cannot be tolerated. The Crimson, as usual, has traded integrity and journalistic balance for sensationalist effect...
Wolf survival is apparently based on recognition of two facts: overbreeding in the pack and wanton destruction of game will bring disaster; cooperation is necessary for survival. These conditions used to apply to man. They may again, and perhaps do now, though the book's anthropomorphic analogies are not always convincing on this point. What does come through is Fox's overwhelming love of wolves, a sense of communion with them that goes beyond words - something that anyone who has loved a large dog will understand. The most powerful words in the book, though, are Henry Beston...