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...were President of the U.S.," Irving Kristol wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal, "my first commandment to my staff would be: Thou shalt not permit a pollster on the premises." Kristol is a onetime leftist who long ago turned neoconservative (in his autobiography, Literary Critic Irving Howe recalls how he and Kristol held forth in Alcove No. 1 of the City College lunchroom in contentious dispute with fellow radicals, among them Trotskyites, socialists and other Marxist deviants, while Stalinists crowded into Alcove No. 2). Kristol's is a familiar and not discreditable shift in political outlook...
Despite such expressions of grief on all sides, the government and opposition were unable to agree on a joint statement condemning the killing. The ruling Likud coalition passed a resolution calling on the public to "act in the spirit of the Jewish tradition of 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' " The opposition resolution declared that Greenzweig had been "murdered as the result of a criminal attempt to attack freedom of speech and the foundations of democratic life." After the vote, Interior Minister Burg, whose son had been injured in the grenade attack, said that the Knesset...
...matter how bloodthirsty, sick or satanic these criminals get, we must not stoop to their level. The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" applies to us too. Nora Berger Rockville, Conn...
...Editor Metzger's hope is to encourage people to read the whole Bible, he would have had a better chance if he had just removed all the "Thou shalt nots...
...from the many small-town forces, but the full-time staff that runs the organization on a daily basis has tended to reflect the more liberal views of members like Murphy. Adding to the resentment against Murphy has been the fact that he regularly breaks the eleventh commandment: "Thou shalt not criticize another policeman." In May, Murphy was informed that an ad hoc committee would be considering sanctions against him fora variety of "derogatory statements," including "The police world-I generalize-is a racist world. We're reflective of society itself," and "The I.A.C.P. is today dedicated to preventing...