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...yield more tapes, Nixon also argued, would merely "prolong the impeachment inquiry without yielding significant additional evidence." Therefore, he concluded, he would decline to produce tapes and presidential diaries already subpoenaed and would similarly refuse to obey all subpoenas "allegedly dealing with Watergate" that "may hereafter be issued...
...with it the number of bicyclists in traffic accidents. Bicycling in Cambridge is not the safest of all "sports". Unfortunately many of these accidents are the bicyclist's fault. Massachusetts law allows bicycles on all roads (except expressways and limited access highways), but it also requires that they obey all traffic regulations. Bicyclists have frequently disregarded one way and stop signs, occassionally with disastrous results...
...takes a pamphlet from his bookshelf and begins reading a passage from the Rhodesian criminal code: "Anyone is guilty of a criminal offense if he is absent from the farm during working hours, if he becomes intoxicated, if he refuses to obey any command of a master..." The list goes on. The punishment for such offenses ranges from caning and thrashing to two or three months in prison. Anyone unemployed for more then 30 days is also a criminal, subject to work on a farm for three months without pay, to receive "training" in such skills as digging ditches...
...shot down, have murdered, maimed and wounded in indiscriminate bombing, a thousandfold more Indochinese than Calley and his group. This was also true of the acts of other U.S. ground forces. All of these crimes were, of course, in violation of international laws which the U.S. government agreed to obey. This is the primary reason, in my view, why so many concerned Americans consider the trial, conviction and sentencing of Lt. Calley to prison as absurd and literally obscene...
...first-rate minds have been attracted to it: Freud, Einstein, Jung, Edison. The paranormal may exist, against logic, against reason, against present evidence and beyond the standard criteria of empirical proof. Perhaps there are reasons why the roll of the dice and turn of the cards sometimes appear to obey the bettor's will. Perhaps the laws of probability are often suspended. Perhaps Geller and other magicians can indeed force metal to bend merely because they will it. Perhaps photographs can be projected by the mind. Perhaps plants think...