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...convinced that intelligent kids are most likely to commit suicide. They carry around burdens beyond themselves and feel frustrated at the lack of solutions...
Halevy insisted that his story was correct. Appearing before a Knesset commit tee, Achituv said that he had asked, well before the start of the bombing investigation, to resign at the end of the year. But Achituv flatly refused to discuss whether, as Halevy charged, Shin Bet did have strong pointers to the identity of the would-be assassins, who have yet to be arrested. Commented the independent daily Haaretz: "Doubts remain - if not with regard to the reasons for the security service director's resignation, then with regard to the investigation of the assassination attempts...
Pasternak is made to inveigh against capitalism, under which "every man must be prepared to commit any crime for the sake of money." In the U.S.S.R., on the other hand, "the Bolsheviks are reshaping human nature, directing man toward a better future." Metamorphosed into a true Soviet patriot and Communist, the fictional Pasternak has little trouble turning down the Nobel Prize: "What if I really am just a puppet in the hands of the imperialists?" In any case, he concludes, the prize was "not worth having...
...last season's final episode, six characters voiced threats against J.R.: Sue Ellen, whom J.R. was about to commit to a sanitarium; Kristin Shepard (Mary Crosby), Sue Ellen's vixen sister, who had bedded and then blackmailed J.R. only to be charged with prostitution; Alan Beam (Randolph Powell), an unscrupulous lawyer whom J.R. used and then threatened with a bogus rape indictment; Vaughn Leland (Dennis Patrick), J.R.'s banker, who was ruined when he bought into a Ewing double-deal; Bobby Ewing, whom J.R.'s dastardly business ethics finally drove from Southfork; and Cliff Barnes...
...their trial was to have begun last week, the three defendants pleaded no contest to charges of conspiracy to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon (the rattlesnake...