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Driberg also illustrates some of MRA's other tactics. They are fond of attributing quotes to people who never said them, especially mayors and top officials who cannot politically afford to issue a denial. MRA will also take full-page ads in newspapers and then later cite them as though they were regular news articles. The Times of India was especially incensed when MRA pulled this stunt...
Reporters already sated with generalities asked him to cite examples of political expedience. "No," shot back Romney, "I will not." Why not? "Because I choose not to." Thoroughly angry now, Romney admonished the newsmen: "You are not going to push me into a decision...
...used against DeSalvo. What Bottomly was getting was the opportunity to close one of the most sensational murder investigations in Massachusetts history. What Bailey was getting in return was a substantiated record of a grisly series of murders. Having that, he then planned to call psychiatrists to cite the murders as evidence of DeSalvo's insanity. With his strategy so neatly prepared, Bailey almost casually agreed to the twelve men who were chosen for the jury. Said he blandly: "The case is so strong, I don't care about the jury...
...distinction frequently made is that between force and violence. For example, one Harvard CO wrote on his Form 150: "I feel that the use of force is not necessarily destructive of human worth or human capacities. ... Criminals, rioting mobs, mentally disturbed persons, and uncontrollable children, to cite a few examples, must be restrained lest they harm themselves and society.... It is the use of violence to which I object. Unlike the force employed by police, the violence employed by a state waging war is not used with the consent, or for the welfare, of those against whom it is directed...
...Concerning your article on early violins [Dec. 30], I can only say fiddlesticks! The authorities you cite mention every solution to the Stradivari problem but the historically honest one: restoration of the sound intended by its maker...