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...levied every day. In the book's most belligerent section, the judge wishes that Nixon had indeed been indicted and gone to trial. If convicted in Sirica's court, he would have been sentenced to jail, regardless of the psychological consequences to the country. The judge, whose penchant for stiff sentences earned him the sobriquet "Maximum John," also regrets that he had to rule against public release of the White House tapes. They were, he concludes, "the most intimate and most damning conversations conducted in the Nixon White House...
...felt an emotional barrier: no humans wanted. The kookaburras cackled derisively, and I inagined how the original settlers must have felt on first hearing that dismembered sound, coming out of the forest like a deranged banshee, a whole ancient continent helpless with mirth at the efforts of these stiff European turkeys to bend it to their will...
Freshman Charlotte Worsley will start at goalie today. Worsley, an offensive player in high school, withstood stiff competition in the pre-season, but proved herself a tough-thinking player...
Discourage Oil Imports. Impose a stiff federal tax on oil from abroad, enough to raise the price of gasoline to at least $1 per gal., which would still be much less than the price in any other industrial nation except Canada. Some of the money could be returned as tax credits to the poor and to people who need to use much gasoline in their work, including farmers. The rest of the funds could be used, to finance energy development at home. By restraining imports, the U.S. would slow the outflow of American capital to the OPEC cartel and would...
...formidable autocrat who runs the firm, could have been another Kingsfield, the Paper Chase professor. Unfortunately, Weston never gets to do much more than eat lunch with the old boy and listen to him bombinate about what it was like to be an associate in the '20s (stiff collars, no air conditioning...