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...significance of getting the ablest law school graduates into criminal practice goes beyond the importance of providing good defense and prosecution lawyers. Experience has shown that when these people begin doing criminal work their impact is felt far beyond the cases they handle. They ask questions and put pressure on everyone in the system to examine what they are doing and why. They organize reform and research projects and become a powerful force for change...
...when the government does get down to the streets, its impact as often as not is destructive. The stories of poverty program ineffectiveness, of inconsistent funding practices, and of unfulfilled promises are as true for New York as for any other large city. In addition, Lindsay's prestige received a major blow this summer when the city had to return over $10 million in unspent poverty funds to the federal government at the end of the fiscal year. The Mayor further embarrassed himself by denying the loss for several days...
...failure. We do not intend our remarks to lead to less rigorous teaching in the core curriculum but we do mean to say that major topics should be stressed and, to avoid undue repetition, considered from the vantage point of several departments so that the student feels the impact of this knowledge on Medicine in its broadest sense...
Nothing in the mass of telemetered data, no comment in the yards of tape-recorded communications brought back the drama of the three-day flight of Gemini 11 with quite the same impact as the remarkable color pictures shot by the astronauts. The movie footage and still shots released by NASA last week give an astronaut's clear-eyed view of everything from the weird undulations of the tether that briefly connected Gemini and the Agena target vehicle, to vast panoramas of the earth seen from altitudes never before attained...
...eager to assess again the ideas of the 20th century's most influential economist. Lekachman, head of the economics department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is the first American to analyze at book length Keynes's life and work and the impact of his thinking on contemporary times...