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Dillon also aspired to commit a crime like none other. "One of his mantras he'd repeat over and over was 'There's never been a crime like this, has there?' There was an extreme preoccupation with distinguishing himself," Smalldon says. He also had an obsession with control. "Dillon wrote a letter to the local newspaper, saying basically, You can never catch me, which indicated how very conscious he was of the appeal of operating under the radar but not too far under the radar--the appeal of having a dialogue with society and basically taunting society." Dillon was captured...
...Fowler and Pyle are two prickly points on the oldest triangle. Each man truly loves Phuong; it is the one selfless emotion they share. In Greene's world, love revs the heart rate and clouds the vision. So does political idealism. Both feelings can compel sporting chaps to commit indecent acts?like stealing a friend's woman, or conniving in a man's murder?with the justification that the worst thing to do was somehow the only right thing. "Sooner or later," a canny Vietnamese tells Fowler, "one has to take sides if one is to remain human." It sounds...
...Most first-years seem to have a vague interest in public service, but few want to commit,” Clancy says. “Public service has been relegated to second spot, and that isn’t fair...
...trouble, Müller says. "You just needed to read the balance sheet." The Airbus deal in particular saddled Sabena with impossible red ink. Müller points out that the Sabena order at the time was twice the stock-market value of Swissair, its bigger partner. "You cannot commit to an investment volume that exceeds the capitalization," he says. "It doesn't require airline operating experience to know that...
Conversely, he said, people who receive little respect, particularly in childhood, often commit violent acts to attain recognition...