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...mail statute, the prosecution needed only to prove that the U.S. postal service was used to further a fraudulent act. Former mayoral Press Secretary Earl Bush, for example, was nailed for neglecting to reveal his ownership of an advertising company that held major contracts with O'Hare International Airport. Bush's $202,000 in profits from the company were mailed...
...Newsweek. We look, shudder, and lament, and then run to make the last feature at the Brattle. Perhaps we could grasp 'the magnitude of the situation if some international group flew in a group of Bengali or Nigerian villagers to Harvard Square, where they would compete with chanting Hare Krishna people for the attention of the people hurrying...
Lucien's actions are produced by the reaction of external events on instincts, and his instincts are peasant instincts. In the middle of a pitched battle between the collaborators and members of the maquis holed out in a farm-house, Lucien catches sight of the ripple of a hare darting through the high grass and instantly turns to fire at it. The first thing he does after shooting the German officer who has come to take France and her grandmother away to a concentration camp is to steal a gold watch from the dead man--a watch the German...
...There was absolutely no way of knowing beforehand that on any of these dates, including the September 11 date, a coup attempt would be made," Paul J. Hare, a State Department spokesman, said on September...
...making an existential comedy out of their dislocation; writing the ultimate parody of a murder mystery play and having his onstage critics sucked into the action in The Real Inspector Hound; creating a Professor of Moral Philosophy who tries to disprove Zeno's paradoxes of motion with a real hare and a real tortoise in Jumpers. Up till now, formulas like these have served Stoppard well--his plays have uniformly been among the most intelligent, enjoyable and effective theater of the last ten years. His new failure--Travesties--currently playing in London doesn't mean Stoppard...