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In light of your report on the Supreme Court's decision not to regard physical punishment of schoolchildren by teachers as a violation of the Eighth Amendment [May 2], I can see that we Americans who pride ourselves on our civilization are still several steps removed from it. While...
Essentially, the effect of a prohibitive labor market was not to evenly distribute skill, but to lower salaries. If a player wanted to remain in the profession, he had no alternative but to work at the salary offered him from the franchise possessing his contract. If he was not satisfied...
Mallardi agreed that whatever its status at Harvard, dance provides a vital experience. "Dance can permeate every aspect of living," she said. "The understanding of how the body works and how the psyche works--you can't get that from books. Whatever profession the dancers here choose, they're the...
To some extent, the vet-school crush is a reflection of the back-to-basics, return-to-the-land ethos among the post-Viet Nam young. Says Craig Williams, 29, a senior at Cornell: "I thought it was the type of profession where there would be a lot of freedom...
THE PILOTS. The men who occupy the left?or captain's ?seat of jet airliners operated by the world's major carriers are without question superb flyers. They have risen to the top of their profession through a system designed to weed out the incompetent. In the U.S., typically...