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...Scopes] contrary to that law was prohibited . . . The facts are simple, the case is plain, and if these gentlemen [counsel for the defense] want to enter upon a larger field of educational work on the subject of Evolution, let us get through with this case and then convene a mock court, for it will deserve the title of mock court if its purpose is to banish from the hearts of the people the Word of God as revealed...
Hanns Ostmeier was stunned to pick up a popular German newspaper one recent Sunday and find a photo of himself along with several colleagues in a mock WANTED poster. Ostmeier's offense: he runs the German operations for the Blackstone Group, the big U.S. buyout firm. Blackstone isn't exactly a household name in Germany. But this spring, a top German politician named Franz Müntefering likened Blackstone and other private-equity groups to "swarms of locusts" that fall on companies and devour all they can before moving on. "Some financial investors don't waste any thoughts on the people...
...days later, Professor Charles R. Nesson ’60 went into another instructor’s class and revealed the anonymous e-mailer to be first-year law student Matthias Scholl (who had given Nesson permission to disclose his identity). Nesson proposed that the class hold a mock trial of Scholl. For that proposal, Nesson would eventually be asked by a dean to stop teaching his freshman torts class...
Spitzer's rebuttal: "They have never developed a category. It's easy to say it's chaotic and mock the use of the computer, but that's how a committee works. You put it on the screen so everybody can see it." He spoke in the aggrieved tones of a man who has just spent five hours bending over backward and is now being attacked anyway. Hanging in the air was the belief that masochism exists but henceforth no woman will ever be diagnosed as suffering from it because the women's movement would be disappointed. Some of the women...
...former colleagues spoke last week of a King rarely seen by the public. In a discussion at Atlanta's Morehouse College, King's alma mater, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young recounted how his mentor used to joke with his lieutenants about the violence they faced on the road, launching into mock eulogies of his aides, embellishing his speeches with ridiculous details about "the deceased." Remembered the mayor: "He had us rolling on the floor. He made us laugh so much at the possibility of dying that we weren't afraid...