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...Noon Unpack and arrange belongings in your clothes in drawers and shut them before any parent can make a comment about what a nice collection of t-shirts you have or wonder aloud how their kid is ever going to live with a slob. Carefully extract the recommended summer reading from your suitcase and place the tomes on your shelf, affording them a prominent position. Now is the moment of truth: do you lie, telling your roommate you actually read all those books, or are you honest, saying you wouldn't be caught dead reading anything you don't absolutely...
Carter took the cable and read aloud: "Dear Jimmy, I'm running out of travelers' checks and the Libyans say they'll let me stay in the country for another week only if you promise to send over another ten F-14 fighters. Love y'all, Billy...
Codinha takes a back seat after the first few days of the affair, but Hardoon stays out in the spotlight. One of the mighty and unanswered questions of this drama, spoken aloud by almost every member of the entire cast on occasion, was "Is Hardoon's heart really in this?" At times, he seemed to realize that he was handling a case only someone running for re-election could love. At others, though, he seemed to take the case seriously. "I am absolutely convinced we could have won...I have no idea what the federal judge (W. Arthur Garrity...
Aboard the C-141, the Paratrooper, jammed among his equipment-laden buddies, drifts into and out of sleep. Twenty minutes from the drop zone, the final commands begin. Then he is out the door and into the clear sky, counting aloud, "One thousand, two thousand, three thousand, four thousand." His chute is snatched open by the rushing air, and he drifts toward the ground...
...dissent, Justices Stewart and William Rehnquist furiously argued that the Constitution permits no discrimination of any kind between races. By the majority's logic, wrote Stewart in the dissent that he read aloud on the day of the decision, "the Government implicitly teaches the public that the apportionment of rewards and penalties can legitimately be made according to race-rather than according to merit or ability." He concluded bitterly: "There are those who think that we need a new Constitution, and their views may some day prevail. But under the Constitution we have, one practice Sin which Government...