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Penn Takes Command...
...making) have from the start portrayed Calley as a half-mad, sub-normal robot, a kill-crazed misfit who took out all the frustrations of a life of failure and rejection on the people of one South Vietnamese hamlet. News accounts have played up Calley's lack of command ability, his feelings of inferiority, the supposed unfitness of his whole platoon. The campaign to make Calley into stupid sub-human reached its absurd climax three weeks ago in an essay by William Styron in the New York Times Book Review in which Styron compares Calley to Eichmann, and with this...
...Justices Black and Harlan were the court's intellectual pillars, sustaining reputations for judicial integrity, dignity and tight reasoning through some of the court's most turbulent years. Combining half a century of service on the bench, they cannot be replaced by any pair who could immediately command a similar respect from their colleagues, or from the legal profession. Blemished by the resignation under fire of Justice Abe Fortas, the abortive attempts to impeach Douglas, and Nixon's unsuccessful efforts to elevate two lesser jurists, Clement F. Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, the court is in need...
...product of eight months' work by 1971 Yale Law Graduates Barbara A. Brown, Gail Falk, and Ann E. Freedman and Law Professor Thomas I. Emerson, the article states flatly that "our legal structure will continue to support and command an inferior status for women so long as it permits any differentiation in legal treatment on the basis of sex." That firm judgment is applied even to the subject that many consider the most distressing implication of the amendment: the drafting of women into the military. "When women take part in the military system," say the authors, "they more truly...
...Year-by Jewish reckoning the 5,732nd since the creation of the world-and the congregation had been crowding into Manhattan's new Lincoln Square Synagogue since shortly after sunrise. Now Rabbi Steven Riskin and the cantor huddled together. "Tekiah," intoned the rabbi softly, using the Hebrew command for a long blast on the shofar. The cantor tensed his cheeks and raised the ram's horn to sound the melancholy note, the first of a hundred blasts that began the High Holy Days...