Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main pleasures of Superman is watching him bash buildings, save trains, and most important, commit assault on people in amusing ways. The cartoon violence in Supergirl is so tepid that we can only wonder if Szware was worried about in timidating males insecure about muscle bound women. The persons Supergirl bashes are two painfully stereotypical redneck truckers with ungentlemanly designs on Supergirl's too, too solid flesh. She can't even bring herself to hit the amazingly unthreatening invisible monster that tears up the countryside, choosing for some unknown reason a more ladylike lightning bolt. And why is it that...
...arrest warrants charged the 20 with conspiracy to commit bookmaking...
Understandably shaken, Buscetta fled back to Brazil, though not to the obscurity he sought. In October 1983, Brazilian authorities picked him up on an Italian warrant and made plans to extradite him to Italy. Fearing what awaited him, the hunted boss of two worlds unsuccessfully attempted to commit suicide by taking strychnine. Facing a probable prison sentence and Mafia vengeance, he decided to talk...
...ones are still unresolved, like the conflict between Congress and the Executive over which branch has the power to commit U.S. troops abroad. But no matter how technical or tortuous the case before them, the Justices can put their decision to the tests posed by Warren: "Is it fair? Is it right...
Soloveitchik has rarely granted interviews and, as a perfectionist who is constantly rethinking his ideas, has always hesitated to commit his formulations to print. But now two new publications have made this master of Halakha (traditional law) accessible to a broad U.S. audience. The first: Halakhic Man (Jewish Publication Society; 164 pages; $12.95), a translation of a major manifesto published in Hebrew in 1944. The second, just issued for the High Holy Days, is Soloveitchik on Repentance (Paulist Press; 320 pages; $11.95). Compiled by an Israeli disciple of Soloveitchik's, Pinchas Peli, Repentance is based on transcriptions...