Word: do-it-yourself
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This is the kind of cheap, do-it-yourself theology that shocks all God-fearing people of whatever religious affiliation. These theologians are not religious leaders offering spiritual food to their followers. They are misleading the faithful and giving them religious garbage...
...Thanks. Since Faretta, the number of pro se defenses has multiplied. Some of them have been impressive. In Plymouth, Mass., a do-it-yourself defendant, Anthony Jackson, a grade-school dropout charged with the murder of a young woman cab driver, successfully delayed his trial proceedings by arguing 45 pretrial motions himself. The judge pressured Jackson into accepting a licensed attorney for the main trial, and when the jury acquitted him two weeks ago, Jackson petulantly refused to thank the lawyer. Still another self-defender was Clifford Irving, author of the bogus Howard Hughes biography. He responded...
...noted that the town of Mashpee, Mass., has filed a counterclaim for $200 million as the cost of improvements. Who ever told the white man that a $100,000 house is an improvement over a do-it-yourself teepee? Is a six-lane paved highway with speeding autos an improvement over the dirt road between villages...
...Capitol Hill, House Minority Whip Bob Michel of Illinois complained that the Administration's "do-it-yourself diplomacy is confusing other nations and the American people as well." Other critics felt that a remarkably undisciplined brand of diplomacy was taking shape. It certainly looked that...
Ever since the gold rush, do-it-yourself lawmen have aided the Bay Area's overtaxed gendarmerie by offering extra protection to merchants and homeowners. The 1899 city charter legitimized the freelancers and brought them under the official umbrella of the police department, but kept them in business. The "Specials" report to local precincts, wear regulation blue, carry guns and nightsticks. They follow all the rules imposed on regular cops and wield most of their powers-unlike other private security agents such as the Pinkertons, who have to call a policeman if they want to make an arrest...