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...school book. He claims the joint is not his; his parents believe him and consider the case closed. But Theo is not satisfied at this magnanimous vote of confidence. He finds the fellow who planted the joint (a hulking bully nicknamed "the Enforcer") and brings him home to confess to his parents. The tough guy inexplicably complies. Indeed, he is so impressed with the trusting Huxtable clan that he winds up playing football with Theo's pals. On The Cosby Show, it is not merely unthinkable that a "good" boy might smoke marijuana; delinquents who do are redeemed...
...must confess at this point that the book made me cry. Often Certainly, it is not a piece of "great literature." Other writers have covered the sarne era more adroitly and many of the characters, especially the adults, seem a bit cliche. Still. I found myself moved by the sympathetic portrayals of seemingly minor events in the book: weddings, births, the lighting of the Sabbath candles. Here, it's the little things that count. Writing about a century best defined by the word mass--mass, culture, mass movements, mass destruction--Potok has lived up to the novelist's task...
After serving six years for kidnaping and rape, Gary Dotson, 28, seemed suddenly to be a technicality away from freedom when Cathleen Crowell Webb, his alleged victim, came forward to confess that she had made up the story. But last week, after listening to Webb recant her testimony in a Cook County court, Judge Richard Samuels upheld the original jury verdict and ordered Dotson returned to prison. As a stunned Dotson was taken away once more, Webb sobbed, "He's wrong! Gary Dotson is innocent...
...must confess that I find this a little strange, as I have always heard that American nuclear weapons were for defence only and, if you've been attacked, you would not need to jam communications as the enemy would undoubtedly expect retaliation. Still, I am sure there is an explanation that would not occur to simple souls like...
SOME TIMES, however, the only explanation is a simple one- and yet we never hear an American official admitting the contradictions, much less bankruptcy, of nuclear deterrence. Things are more sophisticated these days. And this inability to confess to the devastating folly of nuclear armaments provides a chilling edge to Petty's otherwise enjoyable satire...