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Nietzsche writes: "As the power and self-confidence of a community increase, the penal law always becomes more moderate...mercy remains the privilege of the most powerful man." Our politicians'--and our own--acceptance of the death-penalty pacifier can only be seen as a sign of our society's...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: Doubting the Death Penalty | 4/8/1995 | See Source »

The limited success against Southern California, Pepperdine and UCLA, however, was more indicative of the strength of the California teams than any particular weakness in the Crimson. With the California squads representing the cream of the NCAA men's tennis crop, Harvard got a taste of men's tennis that...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: M. Tennis Blanked Out West | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

I write as a member of the F.D.R. Memorial Commission and as a grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt's. Your article on the debate over the memorial's depiction of F.D.R.'s disability [Monuments, March 6] was inaccurate and unbalanced, and although you characterized my position on the monument, Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1995 | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

A friend of mine, who shares my weakness for making ill-fated investments, recently bought a share of Berkshire Hathaway. That's the flagship company of Warren Buffett, who recently surpassed Bill Gates as the nation's richest human. Like many of us, Buffett started with a modest bankroll, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW SMART IS WARREN BUFFETT? | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

"Tall Tale" is a surprisingly good live-action Disney movie. It incorporates several different themes, and its characters are fairly complex and wellplayed. The movie's greatest weakness is the father-son story line. The portrayal of Daniel's relationship with his father is strained (mostly by Lang's poor...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Disney Stands Tall with `Tales' | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

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