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...begin to better understand our relationship to these two fundamental realities, we will not be able to make good on our democratic ideals. Were we in England, the call would be for a Royal Commission. Perhaps in our own national experience, we can look to the precedents of the Warren and Kerner Commissions...
...used to support any "institution which teaches the tenets and faith of any church." In 1971 the court strengthened that position further when it ruled in Lemon v. Kurtzman that the state could not reimburse private religious schools for the costs of teaching secular subjects. Chief Justice Warren Burger set forth a stiff tripartite test for legitimate government aid. There must be a secular purpose; the principal effect must neither advance nor limit religion; nothing done should foster "an excessive government entanglement with religion...
Though it reigned over the freewheeling government-securities market, once mighty Salomon Brothers now finds itself on terrain every bit as treacherous as Wall Street. Last week the firm's interim chief executive, Warren Buffett, was summoned along with financial regulators to Capitol Hill for the first public hearings on illegal bond-bidding practices revealed last month. Inquiring congressional committee members had nothing but praise for Buffett's efforts at reform. Beyond firing or suspending top executives, Salomon departed from past practices and decided against paying them compensation, severance or their future legal expenses. Buffett also revealed during testimony that...
Scandal-plagued corporations and government agencies have a surefire formula for riding out the storm: Find someone with an unimpeachable reputation to whip the place back into shape. Beleaguered Salomon Brothers turned to superinvestor Warren Buffet. A few other high-profile "fixers...
...recalls, "would make a communist out of anybody." He joined the party in 1927 and spent several years in the early 1930s at Moscow's Marx- Engels-Lenin Institute. When he returned, the brash youngster started organizing workers and getting in trouble. In the Little Steel Strike in Warren, Ohio, authorities charged him with using explosives, and in Minneapolis they arrested him for inciting a riot. In 1940 he was convicted of fraud and forgery in an election scandal and spent 90 days in jail...