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...monthlong crime spree. Ake pleaded insanity and asked for a psychiatric examination to evaluate his mental state at the time of the crime. The state refused and unsuccessfully argued before the Supreme Court that providing psychiatrists would prove too costly. Ake now faces a new trial. The wider effect of the court's ruling was not immediately clear. Forty-two states as well as the Federal Government already make psychiatrists available to poor defendants in certain circumstances...
...major advantage of these bridge periods says Professor of Law Frank I Michelman, is that professors and students "argue back and forth." giving a wider perspective on legal questions...
...existence of a Church of the Latter-Day-Saints on Brattle Street for Harvard's Mormon students and a Hillel House on Mt. Auburn St. for Harvard's Jewish students. But Black students must recognize that such preference for parochial moorings are not rights--requiring inputs by the wider college community for their enjoyment. Thus Mormon and Jewish students wishing to enjoy parochial moorings while trekking Harvard's cosmopolitan turf turn to their respective ethnic communities for the funds and resources to sustain this preference...
Underlying the immediate dispute, I think, is a wider disagreement about the proper course for modern liberalism. I am devoted to the old-fashioned kind that says the best society is that which maximizes each individual's freedom to live according to her or his own values. Many who style themselves liberals today have exchanged that belief for adherence to a long list of particular values they think all men and women of good will must share. In that sense, they are indistinguishable form the Moral Majority and, precisely, "ill-liberal" according to the original definition of the word. Like...
...Page's The Glenn Gould Reader (Knopf; $20) is wider in scope. A collection of some 70 speeches, magazine articles, book reviews, radio broadcasts and record-liner notes, it displays Gould's controversial musical perspicacity in such essays as Data Bank on the Upward-Scuttling Mahler and Hindemith: Will His Time Come? Again?. An accomplished parodist, Gould mocks Arthur Rubinstein's kiss-and-tell autobiographies in Memories of Maude Harbour: "I resolved to address every note of my performance to her and her alone and to inquire into the country's statutory-rape provisions at intermission." Gould even gleefully assaults...