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...deeply sorry for the people who have been hurt," Bakker contritely told U.S. District Judge Robert Potter just before the sentencing. "I have sinned. I have made mistakes. But never in my life did I intend to defraud anyone." That last-ditch bid for leniency made little impression on the judge, known as "Maximum Bob" because of his penchant for stiff sentences. "Those of us who do have a religion are sick of being saps for money- grubbing preachers and priests," Potter angrily told the defendant. Bakker, 49, was quickly bound in handcuffs and leg-irons and driven...
...months. When this summer's drought threatened to devastate the village's wheat and vegetable crops, Wu proposed that water from the Yellow River -- unused previously because it was so muddy -- be tapped immediately. Within 36 hours, 4,000 Chinese, including Wu, were digging a new irrigation ditch two miles long. The entire job was completed in twelve hours...
Wolff said HRAAA's latest venture is not just a last-ditch attempt to keep the pro-divestment movement alive in the wake of statements by University officials that the issue of Harvard's $163.8 million in South African investments is closed...
That very same day, I later discovered, my father -- a state secretary in the Foreign Ministry -- had taken part in a last-ditch attempt to dissuade Hitler from issuing the invasion order. In his notes my father remarked, "This afternoon is the most depressing of my life. Apart from the unforeseeable consequences for the existence of Germany and of my family, it is appalling that my name should be connected with this event...
...reaction toward the ditch is simply one more episode in this very contradictory and ambivalent attitude. Every reasonable Mexican knows that the U.S. can dig as many ditches as it wants and that it has the right to do so. On the other hand, there is an aggressive, arrogant touch to the idea of a ditch. A ditch has water; it has crocodiles, piranhas, or sharks. The idea of a ditch to stop emigration from Mexico is one that shakes Mexicans because it reminds us that so many of our people have to go, and it shows how vulnerable...