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...have volunteered for the reading program often make a supreme effort to learn. Besides, in a prison environment virtually devoid of therapy and personal virtually devoid of therapy and personal attention, even short visits mean a lot. Guys you don't tutor flock over to say hello and rap for a few seconds. After a few weeks, tutees start talking to you about prison life, at times about personal problems...
...Harvard, that alone is enough to cause torchlight parades. I refer to things like House tenure, reference to multi-disciplinary programs, new ideas for education. (The latter offers an interesting case: Derek purposely left Henry Rosovsky out of his annual report so Henry wouldn't have to take the rap but that omission when speaking of scholarly matters was viewed by many faculty as an unpardonable breach of whatever and a touch of high ego besides...
...could only be booked in San Francisco. The camera is painfully close, and man, is he wasted. One brilliant critique of society (and here, the law, as he reads the transcript of one of his trials) after another, and all he can do at the end of each rap is give a beaten shrug and a desperate laugh and say, "Weird...
JOHN MITCHELL. Partly because Nixon, Haldeman and Ehrlichman plotted so strenuously to get "the big enchilada" to take the full rap for Watergate, Mitchell has come off as a less sinister figure than during the Senate Watergate hearings. The prosecution's testimony that he approved the bugging plan rests on the testimony of Magruder and the hearsay claim by LaRue that one of the burglars, G. Gordon Liddy, had named Mitchell as having authorized the project. Mitchell also has the advantage of being defended by the most engaging lawyer in the courtroom, William Hundley. When another attorney asked Judge...
...fair is Reeves' rap? Many reporters traveling with Ford believe that they have honestly hit him harder in his first three months than any other President has been hit. Peter Lisagor, veteran Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News, finds the Reeves thesis mystifying. "What shortcomings don't we report? We make every joke in the book at Jerry Ford's expense. We report all his clumsy, well-meaning activities. Every Ford cliche is covered, parsed, dissected. We treat him with slightly amiable disdain." Centrist commentators like James Reston of the New York Times have...