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General Sessions, is among those who argue that it is impossible to identify repeaters beforehand with any reasonable accuracy. Greene claims that judges would have to detain "eight, ten or perhaps more suspects who would not commit crimes while out on bail in order to be sure to keep off the streets the one defendant who will...
...philosophy was based on the conviction that each man defines himself by genuinely engaging others; humanity is a meeting. Kaplan applied this notion to the laryngeal noise that fills humanity's crowded corners and rooms. An honest dialogue, says Kaplan, is never rehearsed. "I don't know beforehand what it will be. I don't know beforehand who I will be, because I am open to you just as you are open to me." Dialogue involves serious listening-listen-, ing not just to the other, but listening to oneself. This rare and wondrous event Kaplan calls "communion...
...white landscape slides irrelevantly back and forth into view like an askew plane in space. You expected beforehand to have a feeling of neat perpendicularity towards the land you were falling to. But as you fall, your mind isn't aware of any geometrical relationship to the ground; it relates only to the airplane...
There was some doubt beforehand whether Humphrey would carry his home state, but he did so with little trouble...
LITVINOV: Our innocence of the charges is self-evident, and I do not consider myself guilty. At the same time, that the verdict against me will be "guilty" is just as evident to me. I knew this beforehand, when I made up my mind to go to Red Square. Nothing has shaken these convictions, because I was positive that the employees of the KGB would stage a provocation against me. I know that what happened to me is the result of provocation...