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...putting some consenting defendants on immediate probation without a trial or even a plea. At long last, a few cities are also discovering familiar business-management techniques. Philadelphia, for example, uses a computer for record keeping and to spot inefficiencies on the trial docket; the city is also moving lesser offenses out of regular courts. Charges that carry penalties of two years or less are handled by special judges who settle the case without a jury. Any defendant dissatisfied with the result may have a full court trial, but so far less than 4% have made the request...
Dean Dunlop's article once again warns us of the terrible financial crisis Harvard faces while one can still joke about "bottomed tubs" or be cynical about the billion dollar endowment. It's perhaps time to indicate some lesser known facts to add to the lore of Harvard's financial status...
...What Bonaparte did not realize is that an emperor who would create a Vergil must have not only the wealth, but also the stature, of an Augustus. Great poetry can only be written about great topics, topics which are common and central to the experience of all mankind. Any lesser theme is doomed by its nature to failure...
...setting is the fictitious Lesser Antillean island of Queimada (Portuguese for "burn") in the 1830s. Sir William Walker (Marlon Brando) is an adventurer employed by the British Admiralty to foment a revolution in the Portuguese colony. Walker realizes that the island's blacks are too downtrodden to grasp political rebellion, so he invites them to participate in something they can appreciate: a bank robbery. He baits a strapping porter named José Dolores (Evaristo Marquez) to anger, then decides he is the man to lead the black bandits. With Machiavellian guile he hides the bandits in a jungle village...
Such a judgment-day device is risky, to be sure. In the hands of a lesser writer it could be self-defeatingly simplistic; in Moore's hands it comes off convincingly triumphant. Fergus has recurring moments of flip inner torment: "God, how do other writers deal with these situations? How did, say, Faulkner manage to come out here time after time and take the money and run . . .? The thought of Faulkner steadied Fergus, for Faulkner had endured and prevailed. ... If Faulkner started seeing his dead parents first thing in the morning, he would settle right in and make...