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...with the student movement, anathematized by radicals as a reactionary--the eponymous émigré intellectual of Mr. Sammler's Planet. In the late '80s, when the culture wars erupted, the Nobel laureate was forced to defend the canon of Western literature against "politically correct" students and professors eager to indict that tradition as a syllabus of dead white males. But he actually belonged to no faction, identified with no cause. Like Ijah Brodsky, the lawyer in his story Cousins, he did no marching. Not even to a different drummer, like Thoreau. No marching, period...
...year the county spent $132,000 to send its overflow of inmates to other jails. Nearly 1,100 people are on probation for felony convictions in Tazewell. Probation officers handle an average of 120 offenders each; a decade ago the average was 60. Ten years ago, grand juries that indicted two dozen people were considered especially zealous. Now grand juries indict 120 people at a time, mostly Tazewell residents, says Lee. Eighty percent of the crimes involve people stealing for drug money. The local sheriff's department is woefully understaffed, and the five-attorney prosecutor's office needs three more...
...returned to the U.S., forcing the Justice Department's hand. The Saudis, eager to avoid the p.r. nightmare of putting an American citizen on trial for terrorism, were relieved to hustle Abu Ali aboard an FBI flight to Washington. Now it was the U.S. that faced a deadline to indict...
Yesterday, Chile’s Court of Appeals upheld the decision, made last week by Santiago judge Juan Guzmán, to indict former dictator Augusto Pinochet for allegedly ordering the kidnapping of nine people and the murder of another, between 1976 and 1977. While it is absolutely laudable that, six years after his arrest in London in 1998, the 89-year-old General Pinochet may, at last, be held to account for at least some of the abuses of his brutal regime (which lasted from 1973 until 1990), Chilean jurists must be cautious not to circumvent due process...
...bullwhips, will they come? Slavery is one of the most shameful chapters of American history, and shameful stories are not the kind that everybody wants to pay $12--the adult admission fee at the Freedom Center--to hear. Whites may shy away from displays that implicitly indict them. Even some blacks are ambivalent about how to treat the knowledge that their ancestors were once bought and sold. Ten years ago, Colonial Williamsburg, the open-air museum in Williamsburg, Va., presented an outdoor re-enactment of a 1773 estate auction that included the sale of slaves. The hope may have been...