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...saga grows all the time. Last year Illinois Corrections Director Gayle Franzen had to mount a shakedown like a military maneuver to wrest control of Stateville Correctional Center from the inmate gangs who utterly ran the place. Says Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz: "One of the major issues on the prison-reform agenda is how to get the prisons back in the hands of the correction people. Too many prisons are in the hands of inmates." Far too many of the abominations associated with prisons turn out to be not flukes but widespread conditions...
...Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, called Turki a "metaphysical cheerleader" and said, "We must isolate people like Mr. Turki--get them out of the dialogue, and get some people willing to discuss the issue. No one in this room really believes Israel or Palestine will go away...
Another unsettling element is the extensive leakage of the facts of the case to the press even before the targets of the probe were told they were under investigation. Says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz: "This is not a press leak but a press hemorrhage." Former Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox believes that "little leaks are one thing. Systematically giving out information of this scale raises real worries about the sensitivity of the people engaged in the administration of justice." Burke Marshall, a Yale law professor who once served as Assistant U.S. Attorney General, complained in the New York Times...
While conceding that B.U. has probably violated the principles of academic freedom at times, Dershowitz objected to some of the methods and conclusions of the study and hinted that some members of CLUM might have been out to get the university's president, John R. Silber...
...Dershowitz said the investigation should have been more rigorous and that B.U. should not have been singled out for examination. He noted yesterday that some Harvard policies are similar to those which the CLUM objected to at B.U. and added that out of fairness the CLUM should also have looked at policies at other universities...