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Sawyer's lawyer, Lloyd Riley, argued that the prosecution's portrayal of his client as a latter-day Fagin was "absurd. He doesn't have the mental capacity to execute such schemes." But U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton decided last week that the coach had indeed taught his team to steal more than bases. He sentenced Sawyer, who had pleaded guilty to two counts of unarmed robbery, to a maximum 30 years in prison. Ten gang members had earlier received four to 24 years...
Fischer, who hired lawyers and yielded voluntarily to an arrest warrant at week's end, denied that he had forged the diaries. He called the charge "absurd," adding: "I can neither read the Gothic handwriting [used by Hitler] nor write it." That was an odd claim for one who deals in documents of the Nazi period. Fischer insisted that the volumes actually were written by the Führer...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key. "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable" on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may well match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...
...spate of detailed disclosures in the past few years about the CIA's dirty work has shown that covert projects, even if successful, can result in resentment of U.S. influence. The absurd lengths to which it can be stretched were revealed last week in the West German parliament when members of the antinuclear Green Party charged that the U.S. was responsible for the death of a West German doctor who was executed by contras in Nicaragua two weeks ago. Party Leader Petra Kelly raised a banner in front of the speaker's podium reading: SUPPORTING THE U.S.A. MEANS...
...Freshman Week calendar lists religious events, including a Hillel brunch, and a gathering for international students (Moses last week admitted to student protesters that this event possibly should not be included in the calendar.) Taken against this backdrop of inconsistency, the bureaucratic tempest in a teapot is even more absurd. And while Moses' intractability may improve his standing in the administration, it strongly erodes his relationship with the students his office is meant to serve...