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...Bolles' assassination. Said a Department of Justice expert on organized crime: "The gangsters are smart enough to know that getting rid of a reporter only causes more trouble than the reporter could stir up in the first place." Arizona authorities finger home-grown mobsters as more likely to commit such an act. They suggest that, despite his apparent loss of interest, Bolles may have been close to linking some big names to illegal schemes. Phoenix Police Lieutenant Jack Bentley told TIME Correspondent William F. Marmon Jr.: "Bolles had reams of stuff in his files that was very damaging...
...that a rap cannot be pinned on him, but his former friend pursues him for three decades. Finally the detective maneuvers his ancient adversary into a situation where he must inevitably take the fall for one of the few crimes-oh irony of ironies-he did not commit...
...fact that little more than half of the corps voted for a flexible system of punishments shows how strongly the status quo is defended by many cadets, and their elders, despite the difficulties. "An officer who sees a fellow officer commit an atrocity has an obligation to report him, even if he's a friend," says Ulmer. "If you won't do that, you have no business at West Point." Over the decades, the code has helped to make West Point what George Patton Jr. called a "holy place," an institution that Maxwell Taylor describes as "something like...
...report an increase in the proportion of their worshipers who receive weekly Communion-from about one-fifth of them a decade ago to more than half today. One possible reason: the newer Catholic teaching suggests that it is hard-not easy-for a reasonably religious person to commit mortal sins, the principal impediment that would keep someone from Communion...
...qualified to assess the characteristics of the 9,100 inmates in the Georgia prisons, 50% of whom ought not to be there. They ought to be on probation or under some other supervision ... I don't know, it may be that poor people are the only ones who commit crimes, but I do know that they are the only ones who serve prison sentences...