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A Yankelovich, Skelly and White poll of the general public, judges, lawyers and community leaders last year ranked public confidence in state and local courts below many other major American institutions, including the medical profession, police, business and public schools. Too much law, too many lawsuits and too many lawyers...
"Inbred in me is a concern for rights of the minority, no matter how unpopular," says Hill, 64. "Concern for religious and political freedom, human rights, just the right to practice a profession and get an education were things that were denied to my forebears." His roots have clearly helped...
Very early on, while others dismissed Hitler as an unimportant barbarian, Malcolm Muggeridge described the Nazi rise as a threat to civilization. He also fellow-traveled to the Soviet Union in 1932 and found Joseph Stalin a dangerous influence. Sounding alarms to the readership of the Guardian had little effect...
Wryness was his real profession; by the 1950s, when he was editing Punch, it was clear that Muggeridge was one of the saltiest essayists of his time. He went public on English television, as a panelist of dependable perversity. Then he surprised his audience with a book called Jesus Rediscovered...
18. Martin Feldstein, 40, his colleagues predict, is some day bound to reach the pinnacle of their profession: chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard, Feldstein is already perhaps the most influential young economist in the nation, the leader of a...