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...partners. For students worried about the bar exam, he has a chapter subtitled "Thousands of Morons Have Passed It-So Can You." There is a section exploring the compulsion for obscurity and obfuscation. The rule is: "If a layman can read a document from beginning to end without falling asleep, it needs work." Simple, direct statements should be avoided at all costs. For example, "The sky is blue" is impossibly straightforward; any associate worth his salt will quickly convert it to "The sky generally appears to be blue." His more experienced superior will render the statement "In some parts...
...next thing Helene knows, she wakes up in a hospital ward. The train has been derailed, the Meyrands killed, and Helene become mother to a healthy boy. What is more. Helene soon learns that she, found asleep in the Meyrands compartment, has been mistaken for Patricia. The old M Meyrand, obviously wealthy, infinitely benevolent, and accompanied by Pierre, a handsome, younger son, shows up to invite the new Patricia--Helene to join the family at its Chateau. At first adamant about recovering her identity. Helene begins to waver: there is, after all, nowhere else for her to go--the scheme...
...TAC3, and features that make them sound like K.I.T.T., the computerized car that is a star of the TV show Knight Rider. They warn a driver when he is too close to the car in front of him or on the verge of falling asleep at the wheel. They understand a command to go faster, and computers under their dashboards plot the car's exact location. They can move sideways, crablike, to park and have memories to recall seating and mirror positions...
Their first day as defendants had tired them. By 7 the cell block was quiet. All were asleep. Mused a reporter: "I'd give anything for a look at their dreams...
Most residents of Managua were still asleep when the first attack began. Swooping low over the southwestern part of the Nicaraguan capital, a twin-engine Cessna dropped a bomb near the home of Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto, who happened to be in Panama City at a meeting of Latin American foreign ministers. The bomb missed D'Escoto's house, no one was injured and the plane flew off into the predawn darkness. A few minutes later a second Cessna appeared, over Augusto César Sandino Airport, about eight miles outside the city...