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...University should recognize this abstinence and allow Claverly men the option of not paying for the breakfast meal if they do not intend to eat it. Those who wish may continue paying for three meals a day, but for the morning faster, payment by coupon for these rare occasions should be enough...
...Although I am sure that my pat claims of the privilege have been both legally justified and morally right, I now intend to waive my constitutional rights own activities and associations. I hope that be telling my own political history I can help to dispel suspicion and contribute to public understanding...
...English novel we all had to read in college. Pamela-or at least the first half of it-is one of the most amusing books in the language, and it is hard to see why [Henry] Fielding or anyone else should imagine that its author did not intend it to be amusing. I seriously doubt that "most of London enjoyed a good cry" over this "tearjerker." London in 1740 was a sophisticated town, and . . . Richardson must have known what he was doing when he wrote a bedroom farce in a manner so naive and pious as to offend nobody. Fielding...
...that "no person not being authorized by the sender shall intercept any communication and divulge or publish the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning ... to any person." Penalty: $10,000 fine or two years' imprisonment, or both. The history of the section indicates that Congress did not intend it to regulate wiretapping; the wording was lifted out of the Radio Act of 1927, where the apparent intent was to prevent pirating of messages by rival communications companies. But the Supreme Court applied Section 605 to wiretapping. The court ruled...
When Shamela opens, Sham, unlike Pam, is not running from but gunning for the young squire, son of her late mistress, and writing her mother progress reports: " 'Laud,' says I, 'Sir, I hope you don't intend to be rude'; 'no,' says he, 'my Dear,' and then he kissed me, 'till he took away my Breath-and I pretended to be Angry, and to get away, and then he kissed me again, and breathed very short, and looked very silly; and by Ill-Luck Mrs. Jervis came...