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If all else fails, the study group suggests the adoption of "blood games," something along the lines of the Spanish Inquisition or the witch trials. Or "reintroduction of slavery in some form consistent with modern technology and political processes. As a practical matter, conversion of the code of military discipline...
Wrong Residents. Gibraltarians feel that life under British rule is far freer and more prosperous than life in Franco's Spain, have developed a British sense of fair play and justice and an almost embarrassing devotion to the royal family. By ancestry most of them are neither British nor...
Entering and leaving Russia, many tourists zip right through customs without so much as opening a bag, while others get a thorough going-over. Visitors are allowed to bring in the usual items for personal use duty-free. Not to bring: Soviet currency, firearms, pigeons, pornography or propaganda. Tourists are...
During the regular January meeting of the board, Kerr was grilled on this admissions freeze. One regent recalls that "there was an inquisition air about it-the talk was agonizingly tense." Kerr took the questioning as confirmation of the published rumors that the regents were getting set to fire him...
Just Desserts. The pair of lawyers could have-perhaps should have-done their routine at the Palace. During one involved inquisition, Bryan quoted a Buddhist monk to the effect that Buddhism is an "agnostic" religion. Agnostic Darrow wanted to know what the monk looked like. "How tall was he?" Replied...