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...long does it take a lesser Nazi to live down his party activities? Does what he did 23 years ago make his life a permanent open book? Or does the passage of time entitle him to the normal citizen's right of privacy? The recent case of one such West German citizen may well have answered all these questions...
...19th century, so vast was the empire of Queen Victoria and so prestigious her name that statesmen of lesser lands around the world often sought the counsel of her ministers. Thus it was only natural that in 1896, when Chile and Argentina could not agree on the precise location of parts of their 3,000-mile common border, they turned to London for a solution. Though Victoria died before the job was done, her son Edward VII produced an arbitrator's decision in 1902, and his ruling was accepted in every particular - save one. Until now, that one exception...
Upgrading v. Renaming. Not so for lesser law schools, scrambling for higher status, better students and more foundation funds. Moreover, claims Oklahoma City University Law Dean John G. Hervey, a lawyer with a mere LL.B. is outranked by any Ph.D. when it comes to jobs, pay and promotion in teaching and government. Most of Hervey's "evidence" fails to impress skeptics, who point out that law professors are the country's highest paid teachers, whatever their degrees. And what Supreme Court law clerk was ever picked because he had a J.D. rather than an LL.B.? Whether...
...faulted, though to a much lesser degree than the Administration, for being slow in using another of its regulatory tools - the money supply - and later on for overusing it. Despite their waning hopes that Johnson would raise taxes, the Fed's governors kept rapidly increasing the supply of money during the first part of 1966. Businessmen, eager to expand their overworked plants, hired more employees and built inventories, went on a borrowing spree and were willing to pay a premium price for money. Loans to business - which usually flatten out during the first half - actually jumped by $7.5 billion...
Even on a lesser scale, economic sanctions have usually backfired. Moscow's attempt to elbow Marshal Tito into line in 1948 only forced the Yugoslavian Communist leader to turn to the West for trade-and drove him further from the Stalinist camp. The Organization of African Unity's solemn pledge to boycott all South African goods has been a joke: Zambia gets at least half its consumer products from Johannesburg, and the government-owned airline of leftist Mali serves South African oranges to its passengers...