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Still, these are relatively minor blemishes - perhaps the result of any enterprise that seeks, as Shawn has put it, "to create 52 works of art per year." It is unsurprising that errors are commit ted; it is astonishing that so many of those issues were - and are - art works...
Before he read his sentences, Judge Sirica said that he took four points into consideration: the protection of society, the possibility of rehabilitation, the effects of the sentences on defendants and their families, and "the deterrent effect that the sentence might have on others who may be tempted to commit the same type of crimes for which these defendants now stand convicted...
Furthermore, although Muskie's crying incident is considered less disastrous in light of other actions by recent Presidents (besides, we can be reminded. Lincoln used to cry), another such blunder would be fatal, Still, as Goodwin pointed out, it's unlikely Muskie would commit the same mistakes the second time around. "He's probably learned something. He wouldn't cry this time. He could get by with some amphetamines in 1976 like Humphrey...
...America. But he introduces some new themes as well: the struggle for legitimacy (Michael opens himself up to five counts of perjury by denying charges rather than take the fifth); the intimate connection with "legitimate" business ("United Telephone and Telegraph"); and a sense of history. An aging Mafioso committing suicide to save his family from further intimidation reminds himself of the tradition of ancient Roman emperors, who allowed unsuccessful rebels to commit suicide to avoid confiscation of their family estates...
...natural son and takes his vengeance for not being designated Caesar's heir. This, of course, is a longstanding historical rumor, though no proof has ever been adduced for it. Foster's cautionary political moral is that no man of Brutus' nobility of reason would commit such an act without an overriding ideal and that such ideals can be dangerously manipulated...