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...suppose, admire a classmate's ability to drop 108 pages of names. After all, that's a lot of pages, and even with large type it takes some acute observation to compile such a list in a mere twenty or twenty-two years. But if you're going to commit this vast experience to paper instead of using it at cocktail parties when no one's really listening anyway, there are a few things you ought to get straight...
...Congressman Powell [Dec. 30-Jan. 6] has committed and is continuing to commit a crime, not just against the people of his district, some of whom do not seem to mind, but against the people of the entire U.S. He has violated and is violating the honor of the Congress, and he must be removed...
...California Supreme Court has just disagreed. In upholding Terence, the court reminded the committee that bar admission usually turns on whether an applicant has committed or is likely to commit "acts of moral turpitude." Even a criminal conviction is insufficient; examiners must weigh "the nature of the offense." The high court noted that since 1963, "petitioner has repudiated the use of force as a political principle." Repressing pugnacity, he kept his cool during all of his arrests for civil disobedience. Indeed, said the court, Hallinan has the very "good moral character" that the bar examiners failed to see. And unlike...
Fourth, dope addiction may so aggravate poverty for certain desperate people that they are induced to commit crimes or can be urged to commit crimes because the law arranges that the only (or main) source for what they desperately demand will be a criminal source...
automatic commitment to a mental institution. In Massachusetts, for example, a manslaughter defendant acquitted for insanity faces indeterminate commitment, often for life. And in the federal District of Columbia, Congress has passed a special law that would certainly commit allegedly insane tax evaders...