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...defendants unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly did combine, conspire, confederate and agree together and with each other to commit offenses against the United States . . . to defraud the United States and agencies thereof . . . interfering with and obstructing lawful governmental functions by deceit, craft, trickery and means that are dishonest...
...narrow-minded empiricism ruled out serious study of spiritual matters. One day, as Maritain walked hand in hand through a Paris park with his Jewish girl friend Raïssa, the two vowed that if they could find no meaning to life beyond the merely material, they would commit suicide within a year...
...into his mouth with fastidious greed. It is in such moments that the story of their romantic complications (resolved only after everyone has said a lot of terribly clever things) sows its comic seeds and reaps its harvest of laughter. The production succeeds because its cast and crew passionately commit themselves to being passionlessly and uncommittedly stylish...
...judge after serving between 30 and 60 days. Not every applicant gets the early probation; one judge reports turning down ten requests for every one he grants. The procedure is generally used for first offenders in borderline cases where the judge has had a problem deciding whether to commit...
...border and a nuclear phalanx in nearby Mongolia. On the other hand, it may be that in their dealings with the United States and in their own internal debates, the Chinese will tend to exaggerate the extent of the Soviet threat and particularly the Soviet desire to continue to commit vast resources to the military buildup on the China border. Could it be that the Soviets have learned from the Vietnam war that the massive use of force against Asian countries can lead to, at best, only a hopeless stalemate...