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...ancient dictum that has survived is the strategy of using "barbarians to control barbarians," especially since the growth of Sino-Soviet tensions. China now seems to be ready to use this tactic more agressively than it ever did during the Empire...
...thing the reader cannot imagine is Merriwether's ecstasy or pain really breaking through his creamy Harvard style. As if reversing Merriwether's dictum, Other Men's Daughters finally says what Stern may least want it to say: "Life gets you-through habits." ·Melvin Maddocks
...clues as to his prime motive for re-creating what he calls "the most maddening case of any detective's life." One clue is buried midway in the book when Wambaugh tells of a certain "young vice officer" who strongly opposes the department's do-or-die dictum on survival as suicidal. However, that anonymous cop, who undoubtedly is Wambaugh, refuses to challenge his superiors at the time because "he lacked that kind of courage and he knew it." Now, with the courage of a rich cop who stays on the beat only for "kicks," Wambaugh apparently...
Ehrlichman subscribed wholly to Nixon's oft-expressed dictum that the best defense is a good offense. He once responded to an inquisitive journalist...
...Trial of Aaron Burr, Justice Marshall confined the dictum of non-disclosure of communications that was set forth in Marbury v. Madison. The 1809 U.S. v. Burr decision cited...