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...SEVERITY OF COMMUNIST RULE in the Soviet Union is a well-established fact here in the West. The excesses of the totalitarian system there--the random arrests, the extensive security methods, the harshness of prison life, the denial of civil-liberties--have rightly horrified us. And there has proved no lack of Solzhenitsyns, Sakhorovs, and Pasternaks to remind us of these and other terrors...
...opened one of the black diaries and at random picked out a few paragraphs. There was the description of a prominent Senator who had visited the Oval Office with a proposal that day. "Such a jerk," the President had noted. Reading through the diaries over these past months has given him new perspectives on his presidency. He now believes, for example, that he should have picked up earlier on the problems that the Shah of Iran was having at home. Flipping through the diary pages, he turned to a day in the fall of 1977 when he had stood with...
...inmate-writer who was convicted of manslaughter after Author Norman Mailer and others had helped to get him paroled. The "devil's advocate" does not always win; in fact, he often loses. As he explains in his book, The Best Defense, to be published this month by Random House, "The Perry Mason image of the heroic defender of innocent victims of frame-ups or mistaken identification is television fiction...
...educate its readers so as to enhance the community, yet the Crimson seems bent on degrading and humiliating Third World students at Harvard. Rarely have we noticed an article written about minorities that did not have a negative slant. A standout example was the 1980 editorial piece accompanied by random photos of Black students onto which bars (suggesting criminality) were later superimposed. The plaintiffs field a law suit against the Crimson and settled out of court. But although that battle was won, how can full reparations ever be made to the integrity of Blacks and, in fact, minorities in general...
...that's not all Expos 2 enrollee-upperclassmen whom Marius says he will select at random from applicants-will be expected to attend weekly hour-long solo conferences with Marius or Aaron in addition to regular lectures. "It will be an enormous amount of work for every one concerned," Marius notes...