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Noting a tendency among policemen to overlook many crimes, Kelly said, "When a police officer uses discretion, people go home. Otherwise, they may lay around in a jail for three months."He pointed out a stabbing between two Harlem blacks as a case where such judgement is necessary...
Dartmouth has had difficulty playing consistent basketball, losing by 20 points to Princeton two weeks ago, but Harvard can't overlook the Big Green. It will be 'up' for the game, and unless the Crimson is prepared mentally for the Indians, Dartmouth could give Harvard a tough battle...
...snobbish New Yorkers have known for decades, it is easy enough to look down upon Chicago. Long before the late A.J. Liebling permanently dubbed the place "Second City," outsiders laughed at Chicago's pretensions. Not until last year, however, did Chicagoans themselves have the spectacular opportunity to overlook their town that is now offered by the 100-story John Hancock Building. "Big John," as Chicago wits affectionately call the thing, is the world's tallest apartment building: no apartment is less than 45 stories off the ground, and the highest are on the 92nd floor. Tenants often find...
...would bury its enemy, the bourgeois class." He offers surprisingly little hope for truly peaceful relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union: "Peaceful coexistence among different ideologies is not [possible]." History may contradict Khrushchev on that and many of his other judgments. But it is not likely to overlook the earthy, peasant-born Ukrainian who rose to become a world statesman, nor to forget his singular achievement: bestowing a measure of normalcy on the Soviet Union after the bloody aberrations of Stalin's 30-year reign...
...bottom of the dirt road that leads up from the highway south of Anchorage to the Davidson homestead, there is a sign that reads "Please, no shooting..." At the top of the road, up near the rock buttresses of peaks that overlook a broad arm of Cook Inlet to a mountain range on the other side, Art lives with his wife Mairiis and his two sons, Arlyn and Dylan...