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AMID the cacophony of protest against current U.S. foreign policy, it may be hard to believe that Nathan Hale ever cried: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." For many Americans, who through the years thought that a rather wonderful thing to say, it is even harder to believe that today so many young men chant a new anthem: "Hell, no, we won't go!" Indeed, the phenomenon of bitter antiwar protest reflects profound changes in U.S. attitudes toward patriotism-an emotion once proudly shouted from the rooftops but now seldom even...
Explaining Harvard's action, President Nathan Pusey defended the basic right of the university's students to express their views on all matters and demonstrate in "an orderly fashion." But he warned that they must not "become so carried away by their conviction about the Tightness of their cause and so impatient with civilized procedures that they seek to restrain the freedom of expression or movement of others who may not agree with them. This kind of conduct is simply unacceptable, not only in a community devoted to intellectual endeavor, but in any decent democratic society...
...everyone whose conviction is thrown out by the Supreme Court has such good fortune. Three years ago, the Supreme Court found that Brooklyn Murderer Nathan Jackson was entitled to consideration of his claim of having been drugged when he confessed. But at a subsequent hearing, Jackson's confession was found to be untainted by drugs after all. He was retried, reconvicted and, because he had killed a policeman, resentenced to death. Last week the New York Court of Appeals upheld his sentence...
...NATHAN O. WEEKS Sanbornville...
...annual report on the Harvard Law School to University President Nathan Pusey has just been published. An excerpt: "More and more law school faculties have come to be looked on as quarries from which persons may be chosen for important posts in public service. On numerous occasions they have left the Law School faculty, often on very short notice. But the process is difficult. The disruption is considerable, and one may be pardoned for wishing at times that his faculty was somewhat less attractive to the practical world...