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...Greenpoint, Brooklyn, one William Connors yanked powerfully on the leash of his police dog, Alex, when the latter, growling savagely, made a sudden leap at a passing woman. The woman screeched, fled. The dog turned, sprang at its master who, burly, sank his fingers in the dog's throat as he was knocked flat. For six minutes man and dog writhed on the sidewalk, snapping, shouting, snarling, grunting. Then the dog groaned, fell limply over, wheezed, died. Police dog experts admitted Alex had "gone wolf...
...high academic standing will be permitted to give up classroom attendance to concentrate on individual study supervised by faculty members. This plan largely parallels the tutorial system in force at Harvard, and has as its aim the establishment of a more thorough and deliberate college course, with no sudden and bewildering transitions from class to class. It is significant that more than half the endowment will go for the improvement of the instruction of the freshman year...
...April, 1920, killed a paymaster, and made off with a payroll. The evidence directly connecting them with the crime was of the slightest. It is generally admitted that no connection has ever been established between them and any gang, and they have shown no signs of sudden enrichment. Their identification as persons who participated in the crime rested solely on the contradicted testimony of unreliable witnesses who claimed to have seen them for a fleeting moment from unconvincing distances. The trial judge has stated that the verdicts did not rest on evidence of personal identification but on later conduct...
...peasant-bourgeois hardheadedness. One turns out an indolent woman's man. The girl is a prig. The other son, bright and gentle, joins the revolutionaries. They are, as Pyotr was, boys without any family tradition. The seed of their difficulty, as of Russia's, was the so sudden liberation and enrichment of their peasant forbear by his aristocratic master at the Emancipation. The Russian bear did not learn to dance in a generation. In two it forgot how to dig for roots and nourishment...
Albania is a country of grim politics, sudden tribal uprisings, secret murders, and foreign intrigues. No man was even better suited to such an environment than Fan Noli and those interested it Albanian politics will be sure to heat from him soon again...