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...years I opposed capital punishment, but I changed my opinion several years ago. Our criminal statutes say a man can defend himself from being killed, harmed, etc., by using reasonable means even if he has to kill first...
...capital. But his insistence on carrying his own luggage caused the Washington Star's society columnist, Betty Beale, to carp last week that "if the American people had wanted their President to be a bellhop, they could have found one without all that concern about issues, debates, etc." When Carter said he would like to walk to the White House for a meeting with Gerald Ford, the President's staff nixed the idea because, they said, it created logistical problems. Thus Carter was forced to ride in an eight-car motorcade for a journey of about 200 yards...
...Panic (in honor of the Great Depression?) and Suzy Wong (in honor of the world's oldest laissez-faire enterprise?). Cyrano, in fact, might have been named Loophole. Buckley charters the boat for much of the year, making him eligible for depreciation allowances on it, deductible expenses, etc. He alludes to such arrangements but spares the details. The reader is envious enough...
...critically in Ergo: "One can see the show in 10 seconds, the time it takes to walk across the gallery. The pieces do not differ significantly from each other except that in one case the conduct is curbed rather than angular, the shapes smeared in chalk rather than paint, etc. An electrician might want to take a closer look at the arrangements of the wires and junction boxes, but I don't think many others would want to bother...
...really want to explore the concept of leadership, assemble a similar conference-only this time staff it with the leaders of street gangs, prison uprisings, wildcat strikers, guerrilla bands, terrorists, organized crime, etc...