11 MARCH 1995, page 12

An Ideal Martyr

Christian Caryl argues that the murder of Russia's top TV presenter can be interpreted to fit all prejudices. The truth is more complex Moscow I HEARD the news about the......

If Symptoms

persist. . . IT HAS LONG been denied by many eminent people, professors among them, that there is any philosophical justifica- tion whatever for the practice of punish- ment. I......