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...admission led De Lorean's attorneys to request a dismissal on the ground of destruction of evidence. Tisa returned to the stand the next day and claimed he had not destroyed evidence. "You mean you lied yesterday?" challenged Weitzman. "No, I did not lie," Tisa said, "I was mistaken." He said that he had only disposed of "personal working notes" and that he had accidentally dated some entries 1983 although they were written in 1982. The agent admitted that he had been vehemently chastised by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry for his careless testimony the day before. Said Tisa...
While his contemporaries fell in love or attached themselves to religion or politics, he stood self-consciously aloof, knowing that his teachers admired his linguistic ability and than a very small circle of friends enjoyed his contemptuous altitude toward life. With what predictable withering epigrams he had managed to dismiss those fools who thought the world was worth saving by a change in its political system: With what equally brief violence of phrase he had dealt with the ideas of the God-squad...
...whole, Pynchon's early works are flawed but disciplined exercises by an apprentice who already senses the sorcerer he will become. Pynchon's attempt to dismiss himself as just a regular guy is charming but a little disturbing, suggesting a weariness with the task of being different. He even includes a sentence that implicitly questions the wisdom of remaining in hiding: "Somewhere I had come up with the notion that one's personal life had nothing to do with fiction, when the truth, as everyone knows, is nearly the direct opposite." This might be taken to mean...
Dreben's behind-the-screen activities have led to his reputation as one of the most powerful members of the Faculty, a reputation even he is hard pressed to dismiss. "I am constantly aware that someone in my position could seem to have some kind of undue influence," Dreben says. "Over the past 11 years I have played the role of being a serious advisor to the dean one of several," he adds...
...views of students and junior faculty. When Bok and his Corporation seek to ignore the ethical dimensions of corporate responsibility, when they refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of students' calls for a real hand in determining Harvard's investment policy, or when Bok and Dean Rosovsky smugly dismiss students' attempts to gain a real say in the formulation of their own curriculum, the silence is an echo. Granted, Bok is a smoother man than Pusey--as the Corporation and Overseers realized when they named him, he is the sort to rely on calm words, rather than police violence, to settle...