Editorial / One Fat Thespian / Seabed Socialism
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
admissions, the results of hiring-and now the results of voting. The Supreme Court in 1980 shot this idea down, however, sensibly ruling that litigants who didn't like the election results...
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...SEABED SOCIALISM I n reviewing the amazing proceedings of the Law of the Sea Conference that the Reagan Administration scotched in late April, one thought continued to nudge forward in my mind, to wit: By common consent we are coming to the end of the postwar period...
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...Before turning to the specific questions asked of me, I must plead innocent to the charge that I underestimate Heidegger's work...
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...But from the Law of the Sea Conference it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . is clear that many of them have EDITORIAL (continued from page 6) century, some snoozing nearer the Middle Ages, simply declared that the planet's resources are " t h e common heritage of mankind...
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