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...with--some constructive dialogue. The State Department should open its doors to members of the PC who wish to come to this country to lecture or talk with State Department officials. Rudeness and denial of the PC's existence hinders, rather than advances, foreign relations. In addition, a more lenient attitude towards the "historic compromise" would be wise. Such a change in attitude could act as a signal of goodwill so that an alliance could begin on a basis of friendship and trust. In the long run, such an alliance would benefit the U.S., since cooperation with the PC would...
...file of ironies. Forbidden to write a formal memoir, Speer scribbles on toilet paper, then smuggles out his work with the help of a Dutch guard who had once served as a forced laborer in a German factory. Speer's Russian captors-who alternate with more lenient Westerners-are as harsh and arbitrary as Reich Marshals. When he steals a cauliflower from the prison vegetable garden, Speer is caught and sentenced to a week of solitary confinement...
...Moshe Dayan: "Naturally he has his faults, and like his virtues they are not small ones." She is more lenient with Richard Nixon: "He did not break a single one of the promises to us." Her long time political antagonist, Henry Kissinger, is suddenly embraced for "his intellectual gifts, his patience and his perseverance...
...courts always acted consistently in other, related cases. Though euthanasia, or deliberate mercy killing, is still regarded as murder, the courts have generally dealt lightly with those accused of it. Juries in such cases have shown a reluctance to convict; even when they do, judges have usually been lenient in their sentencing. In a 1968 case in Illinois, for example, a 69-year-old man admitted to suffocating his crippled wife and then attempting to take his own life. The judge, on his own initiative, withdrew the man's guilty plea, entered a judgment of not guilty and sent...
...increase between 1973 and 1976 from nine to 15 tenured minorities and from 18 to 37 tenured women. The departmental goals are modest, seldom exceeded, sometimes not met. If affirmative action goals seem overly strict in theory, in practice at Harvard they are more often criticized for being so lenient that they do not guarantee progress...