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Eugene Zuckert said that probably 100 cadets, including 30 football players, had broken the ten-year-old academy's honor code, which says: "We will not lie, cheat, steal, nor tolerate among us those...
Students who cheat at Harvard eschew the timeworn eliches. The very rich and/or very desperate have even been known to hire substitutes...
...fiercely moral old tear-jerker is only a cousin by marriage to Pietro Germi's memorable comedy, Divorce-Italian Style. Its inspiration is the same rigid divorce laws that make marriage a last resort for Italian males and a Sisyphean challenge for the women who have to weep, cheat, wheedle and trick them into it. Under Director Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow), the two stars pour themselves into their work and set charm flowing like strong red wine...
Only now and then were there flashes of the old fun and games. He was thinking, he said, about going into business-manufacturing "Sonny Listen Sit-Down Stools." He hinted at a sinister plot to cheat him out of his title. "All I want is justice," he said. "I'll have 15 people flown in from the U.N. to observe the fight." He promised to wear his championship belt into the ring, "and if I lose, I'll give it to him right there." He guaranteed a knockout, briefly reverted to verse to name the round: Nine will...
...settlers hadn't tried to kill off all the Indians, the U.S. might have done better in canoeing. As it was, a Swede who paddled 3,000 weary kilometers in practice won the 1,000-meter kayak race by 15/100 of a second. In gymnastics, Americans who cheat on pushups could only gape in astonishment as the incredibly graceful Russian girls danced off with the women's-team championship, and Japan's Yukio Endo, 27-poised on the parallel bars as if cast in steel-scored an incredible 115.95 out of a possible 120 points...