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...Atticus Finch, the small-town white lawyer assigned the unpopular task of defending a black man against rape charges in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Finch does so fervently but loses the case. Matsch describes Finch as "the opponent of oppression, the paradigm of propriety, the dean of decent citizens and the core of his community." Those are the strict ideals Matsch expects his court to live...
...work he received a far smaller portion of the harvest than he did when his thresher was his own. The propaganda of volunteering for the community did not work for him and for many others mainly because the members of the community received too little to lead a decent life...
...ridiculous as the sum might sound, especially in comparison to the $21,000 Pitino made in his first year at B.U. in 1978, he may be worth it. First, $7 million a year is less than any decent superstar makes in basketball or baseball, and basketball coaches have found in recent years that when they say it's either him or me, the owner invariably says it's you, since your guaranteed contract is much smaller...
...lacking in clear purpose and shaken by its own incompetence. Truell's newspaper is tottering as well; its traditions, which date from a time when a newspaper could be the soul of a city, are far more solid than its finances. Good reporters are quitting. The publisher, a decent fellow in a shameful squeeze, is talking with secretive offshore moneymen...
...year, fixed-rate mortgage, and one for my friend here"). But no; guy actually says, "Give me some money, or I'll kill this goose." So a lady gets money out of an atm and gives it to him. He gives her the goose. Would Weil, a decent, compassionate man, want me not to have read this mysterious parable? Not to have wondered what happened next? What did the lady do with the goose? Was she headed for work, and did she have the kind of boss who said, sure, sure, stick him in marketing? Or was she late...