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Exactly how these accusations cleared the accusers of guilt, no one said. Most of the culprit schools were resigned to a few seasons of athletic mediocrity-at least until the conference cools off.* Said a West Coast fan of purged U.C.L.A.: "Next fall the brave Bruins will probably have to play Michigan, Southern California and California with Ronnie Knox and some students...
...great Savrola, savior of his country, confronts the "sombre-clad" assassin who has slain the Dictator. The act offends his nobility. "Vile scum!" Savrola cries, and he slashes the culprit across the face with his stick...
Madame calmly notes one culprit's end: "She was burned at the stake yesterday, not Wednesday, as I had told you . . ." The woman who had been burned as a witch, La Voisin by name, was no innocent victim but a notorious poisoner and promoter of Black Masses. She symbolized the strange, diabolic resistance movement that flourished beneath the surface of official society, just as Madame de Sévigné symbolized the outer serenity and almost Japanese exactitude of social forms. There is no evidence that her 17th century mind understood that underground passion for evil any more than...
...bona fide traitor was a list of French military secrets that it ran across in September 1894. Historian Chapman ably retells the story of how, with a few slipshod handwriting comparisons, a War Office clique decided that studious, impersonable. wealthy and unpopular Captain Alfred Dreyfus was the logical culprit. Author Chapman argues that Dreyfus' court-martial and imprisonment at Devil's Island were mostly a tragedy of honest errors, not a conspiracy of racial malice...
...authorities have at last found the Cypriot whose paintbrush adorned a wall with a slogan offensive to the Governor. Such scenes at police headquarters suggest a boys' game gone terribly wrong- the young, pink-faced British soldier looks almost as scared as the culprit he drags in, squirming and nauseated with fear. This criminal is a schoolboy of 14; the message he painted was "Harding come down from your helicopter." The punishment for the boy's crime: three months in prison...