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...translators' commentary in the N.A.B. is bound to be more controversial than the biblical text itself. The introduction criticizes the New Testament as flawed by "limited vocabularies," "stylistic infelicities," "syntactical shortcomings," "overladen sentences" and "rhetorically ineffective words and phrases"-in general, literary sins no "Western contemporary writer" would commit. The scholars are obviously trying to prepare readers for what they call their "unvarnished" version, but they seem to protest too much about the style of the ancient writers. After all, translators throughout the ages have had to deal with the blunt prose of Mark and the sometimes serpentine arguments...
...even at the make-believe injustices I saw in Lassie movies or read in Polly Pepper books. Then I had vivid mental images of real-life horrors throughout history, like the Inquisition and the Holocaust of the Jews during World War II. I saw the petty injustices that people commit against each other every...
...slack period of model changeovers. The comforting sense of security is exceedingly important. The only serious strike Toyota ever had was in 1950, after 2,000 workers were let go. Before the strikers returned to their jobs, President Kiichiro Toyoda had to accept personal responsibility for the firings and commit a kind of corporate hara-kiri by resigning...
That's how I feel about the verdict in this trial. Lonnie McLucas was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, which carries a maximum sentence of fifteen years, and declared not guilty of the three other more serious charges for which he was tried. But a possible fifteen years in jail is also serious; and a compromise verdict doesn't change the fact that Lonnie McLucas was being forced to play a life-or-death game by someone else's rules...
...Panthers who were indicted for conspiracy to commit murder included all the people who had been in the Kimbro apartment at any time during the three-day period. Of these 14, two were juveniles and will not stand trial. Three, Loretta Luckes, Warren Kimbro, and George Sams, plea-bargained and also will not stand trial. This leaves the present New Haven...