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...reason appears under several names: International Termpapers, Inc., Universal Termpapers, Termpapers Unlimited and Quality Bullshit. Since September these new, aboveground organizations have turned out more than 4,000 term papers for students willing to pay $3 a page for standardized material and $6 a page if the paper is custom-made...
With no international police or legislature, laws of war are mainly enforced by custom and the violators' own military courts. They have doubtless saved millions of lives. If observing them threatens to bring defeat, however, they are likely to be ignored. The big loophole is "military necessity." Though not a legal defense against specific prohibitions, says the Army manual, military necessity can justify any other acts deemed "indispensable for securing the complete submission of the enemy as soon as possible." In short, this authorizes the use of any tactics and weapons that the law has not caught up with?napalm...
From his gypsy forebears, John Miller inherited an idiosyncratic custom. For four generations, the Millers have carefully guarded a small green leather pouch containing coins and a knotted red cloth, that was said to keep ill fortune from the family as long as it remained unopened. Miller, a boiler repairman in Tempe, Ariz., protected himself by storing the pouch in a safe deposit box in the vaults of the Tempe branch of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Phoenix...
...Anda said the situation is quite similar in Texas. Talking specifically about school desegregation, De Anda said: "Unlike blacks, Mexican Americans have never had specific statutes drawn up to exclude them, but custom and tradition still keep them in segregated schools...
They selected as their battleground the Fourth Annual Motorcycle Custom and Trade Show sponsored by the Cleveland Competition Club, an organization that unlike Hell's Angels, the Breed and sundry other outfits, is chartered by the American Motorcycle Association. Staged in a three-story brick hall in the heart of Cleveland's predominantly Polish Southeast side, the annual show is designed to brighten motorcycling's image, and has never witnessed as much trouble as a fistfight. The proceeds were to go to a crippled children's fund...