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Szasz said that the courts should not consider insanity to be a legitimate defense in criminal cases. He said "anyone who is sane enough to commit a crime is sane enough to be punished...
...question. His first choice for director, Theodore Sorensen, suddenly withdrew from consideration three days before the Inauguration because it had become apparent that he was unacceptable to a powerful coalition of liberals and conservatives on the Senate Intelligence Committee (TIME, Jan. 31). Members of the committee would not commit themselves when asked about Turner, but the admiral seems widely acceptable-to liberals, because he does not come from within the CIA's ranks, and to conservatives, who are reassured by his military background...
...infection can be dramatically cured by a bacteriostatic antibiotic, such as chloramphenicol, as well as by a bactericidal one, such as penicillin, so the inability of an EK2 strain to multiply in the gut would be sufficient to ensure its rapid disappearance, even if it did not rapidly commit suicide. The important question, requiring extensive investigation, is not the rate of suicide of the EK2 strain but the chance of transfer of its plasmid to a better adapted strain, before disappearance of the EK2 host...
...nation's crime rate could be appreciably reduced with proper rehabilitative training of men and women felons. Yet to suggest that this is reason enough for Gilmore's behavior, evinced before the need for rehabilitation was even apparent, is spurious. To further indict society, thereby acquitting Gilmore, is to commit a travesty of justice...
Aside from these, the Rosovsky report was praised in general by students and faculty, because it represented the first attempt to rectify Harvard's mistakes with respect to black people. The report did acknowledge the inadequacy of the curriculum in Afro-American studies and recommended that the University commit itself to the goals of increased research, faculty, and funds in Black studies. It proposed graduate and undergraduate degree programs as well as an institute for Afro-American research. It indicated a need to make special efforts to bring to Harvard experts in Afro-American studies who lacked the "normal academic...