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...culprit has been dubbed "Marijuana Mouse," alias "Happy." Delirious would be more like it. Three times the D.A.'s staff set traps for the mouse, and three times the little felon made off with the bait-more marijuana. Why not try cheese? Says Linda Callahan, the D.A.'s secretary: "We give him what he wants." No dope, that rodent. Nope, no dope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: High Living | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...what shall we say about the dark realm of criminality as such? Legal frames (especially in the United States) are broad enough to encourage not only individual freedom but also certain individual crimes. The culprit can go unpunished or obtain undeserved lenience with the support of thousands of public defenders. When a government starts an earnest fight against terrorism, public opinion immediately accuses it of violating the terrorists' civil rights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'A World Split Apart' | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...five Series homers--three in the last game, on consecutive pitches. Reggae had stolen the spotlight again, away from the man who deserved it: Martin. It was Martin, after all, who held the club together, protecting them from the blathering criticisms of the man who is the real culprit in all of this--George Steinbrenner...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Shame of the Yankees: Martin Pulls the Ripcord | 7/25/1978 | See Source »

...carrying urine from the bladder. In gonorrhea victims, it is caused by the gonococcus bacterium. But in a majority of cases of NGU, no gonococcus can be found-hence the name nongonococcal urethritis. Though the cause of NGU cannot always be determined, researchers have in recent years identified a culprit in about half the cases: a tiny bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis, the same microbe that causes trachoma, an eye disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Cinderella Disease | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson) if instead of devoting an entire page to Feldstein, it would have sufficed to have included a shorter passage revealing such an emotionally-colored perspective on the psychological traumas suffered by kibbutzniks. Arab Information Center Director Hatem Husseini elaborates on the point that the media is a culprit to perpetuating slanted perspectives on the subject...

Author: By Nina J. Lahoud, | Title: Thirty Years of Frustration | 5/16/1978 | See Source »

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