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...world if we continue to let our borders be overrun?" Ezell asks. Aliens, he says, should not be allowed to "enjoy our freedom if they break our laws to get in." Nor, he contends, should they simply be tossed back across the border: "If you catch 'em, you ought to clean 'em and fry 'em yourself." To do so, he has set up teams of investigators to prepare prosecutions against smugglers and those who enter the U.S. with phony documents...
...forever. "Tough to handle," drawls Jackie Smith, 45, the great St. Louis tight end, coaxed from retirement by Dallas. "But it mellows." He produces fishing films now in rural Arkansas and misses big cities not at all. No tight ends are in the N.F.L. Hall of Fame, but one ought to be. "Sounds crazy, considering what happened," he says. "But I don't guess I ever enjoyed a season so much. All those years in St. Louis, I never had time to reflect, and looking back after retirement, everything seemed so jammed together." When the Cowboys called, looking...
...injury or other condition likely to interfere with the mission or preflight training; eyesight correctible to at least 20/40 in the better eye; able to hear a whispered voice from 3 ft. away (hearing aids are permissible); and a blood pressure reading of less than 160 over 100. "There ought to be a great advantage to prove that any old fart can do it," quipped the 69-year-old Cronkite...
...most of us, better than that. Just read your own books and see. The "state" is a necessary evil simply because many individuals are very capable of being very deadly. Moreover, some states are almost fair, some are bad, some are lethal. And since writers are, or at least ought to be, in the subtleties department and in the precision department, it is our job to differentiate. Whoever ignores the existence of varying degrees of evil is bound to become a servant of evil...
...ascribe a demonic imagination to the state and a redeeming imagination to ourselves. It's all in our own heads--let's not give in to the temptation of simplifications. We ought to be telling bad from worse from worst...