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...mistake can be fatal; it is legal for a cop to use all necessary force, even to kill a fleeing felon; but his power to use force is much more limited in the case of a fleeing misdemeanant. There comes a point when the arrester may be subject to murder charges-and when the arrestee is entitled to shoot back in self-defense...
...sheriff in Massachusetts. The reason for the sheriffs' concern is clear: the awarding of supply contracts, together with the patronage in the non-civil service county houses of correction, is of enormous importance. In state where sheriffs exercise great power over the county political organizations, angering a sheriff is fatal...
Because burns are among the most common disfiguring, crippling and fatal accidents, physicians and surgeons have tried almost every imaginable therapy. In the 100 years since Lister discovered asepsis, practitioners have hopefully tried phenol, boric acid, picric acid, iodoform, tannic acid, sulfa drugs and ACTH, only to wind up, after a few years, disappointed in all of them. Now another new and seemingly miraculous treatment has been discovered, and once again doctors are hopeful-this time with better reason...
Necessary Mystery. Still, Moreau makes no effort at all to find parts that express so much as her passing mood, let alone anything substantial of her own life. She far prefers that other people choose her roles for her; to make the choice herself, she thinks, would invite a fatal struggle with her vanity. "If I get concerned with what kind of part I would like to play," she says, "I would then start to wonder what roles would be good for me, good for my career, pleasing to the public. Life does not invite this choice, and neither should...
...PIDE interrogation center in Lourenco Marques, Siguake was forced to watch the fatal beating of a friend, then to carry the friend's bloody body in a sack out for burial. Because he was known outside the country, the police were afraid to kill him, but they stood him facing a wall for six days of questions until he collapsed in pain and was hospitalized for a month...