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...ends in themselves. If he has a legitimate means of registering his dissent, the citizen cannot take illegitimate means or decide for himself which laws he will obey and which he will disobey. "In war, and in the court of justice, and everywhere," Socrates told Crito before he drank the hemlock, "you must do whatever your state and your country tell you to do, or you must persuade them that their commands are unjust." For each man unilaterally to veto the law would create anarchy-a kind of immorality of its own. The precedent of Nuremberg, it might be added...
...overwhelming preseason favorites to win their second straight N.B.A. title. If conditioning alone determined the winner, the Lakers would be shoo-ins. Last week, when Laker Owner Jack Kent Cooke jubilantly broke out the champagne to celebrate the team's record-breaking victory, most of the players drank their toasts in Gatorade...
...there are many more determined female deserters. Nina, for example, was a 36 year-old Massachusetts wife with a maid, two cars, a country-club membership and a corporate-executive husband who drank too many martinis and made too many passes at other men's wives. Committing what Gold fader calls "social suicide," she fled to the West Coast and took on the identity of a friend. There she got a job in advertising and acquired a new Social Security number using her friend's name. Despite her elaborate precautions, she was located through her real birth date...
...your article on the Texas State Fair: I have never known a Texan who drank rye whisky, unless he had just moved here from "Fun City." I have heard very few who speak with the accent indicated in the article, but then I live in South Texas, where we speak with a Spanish accent. New York's various boroughs speak a strange English...
...struggle Jackson brings an engaging manner of easy, open affability, although he delivers his speeches woodenly. At age 59, he keeps fit by swimming daily in the Senate pool and avoiding late night conviviality. In other days he drank a Scotch or two a week, but not now. "I'm in training," he smiles. So, traveling first class on each campaign flight, he stows the two allotted shot bottles of liquor in his flight bag. Already this year he has logged 160,000 miles to visit 31 states, and the collection of unopened bottles is up to well over...