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...display of histrionics. While it is heartening that the President of Harvard can defend himself and his institution from peevish and petty assaults with great skill, Bok failed deal with the important issues that Bennett did raise despite himself. On these more substantive issues--teaching, advising and, to a lesser extent, the Core Curriculum--Bok issued the sort of conditioned, knee-jerk defense of Harvard that Bennett had predicted he would...
...especially a boat with nets down 12 ft. deep. And there is only so much room cross the mouth of the channel -- room, say, for 20 boats, elbow to elbow. So position is everything. The nets in front take the tide-bestowed bounty; the nets behind, on the lesser powered boats, scoop in what is left. If this were a democratic game, the boats on the line would drop back with their fill after a set time, allowing those behind a chance, but it is not, and anyway, shrimpers, like hawks, do not share. Thus feelings are bitter within...
...argument begins to get lost it also becomes offensive. He refers to "convenience abortions." If Pakaluk had ever experienced the procedure he would not use such glib language. Abortion is always the lesser of two evils for women, and not a small one on account of being less terrible than bearing an unwanted child...
...Commission trial is not expected to produce a turncoat as high ranking as Cleveland Underboss Angelo Lonardo, the top U.S. mobster to sing so far. He learned how to be a turncoat the hard way. Charged with leading a drug ring, Lonardo was convicted after a lesser hood, Carmen Zagaria, testified about the inner workings of the Cleveland Mob. Zagaria described how the bodies of hit victims were chopped up and tossed into Lake Erie. Lonardo, who wanted to avoid a life sentence, then helped prosecutors break the Las Vegas skimming case...
Oddly enough, petty crime on the streets of Palermo has increased since a surprise sweep two years ago rounded up 53 of the prisoners now on trial. Investigators believe that with so many of the big bosses in jail, the lesser lights, with no other source of employment or income, have turned to purse snatching for pocket money...