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Amirouche lived in the field with his guerrillas, seldom slept in one place for more than a few hours, eluded French patrols time and again with lightning mobility. As his legend grew, so did his delight in his own prowess. He affected strange headgear, often of black astrakhan, and gripped...
The dual nature of an architect as both an artist and a master of a technology poses a temptation to favour one aspect over the other. Yet it is obvious that one without the other leads to mere emptiness and in fact is impossible. As in any creative work the...
Even if an "ideal" composition of the freshman class is decided on, Ford pointed out, a number of "hard realities over which we have no control" might prevent the execution of such plans.
The spectacle of Lawyer Castro's ignoring the principle of double jeopardy caused the Havana, Santiago and National Bar Associations to protest. A defense attorney for the airmen, Carlos Peña Justiz, said the reversal could stamp Castro as "a new Napoleon in the Caribbean." Muttered Castro: "Reactionary...
Much as he is concerned with science and government, Price has always been intensely interested in the science of government. He is most concerned, he says, in the way executive agencies are related to the legislature and to the entire political process. This is, once again, the problem of the...