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...Choice." In a five-paragraph letter of resignation, Richardson cited his pledge to the Senate, given at his confirmation hearings last May, that he would "not countermand or interfere with the special prosecutor's decisions or actions." He added: "I trust that you understand that I could not in the light of these firm and repeated commitments carry out your direction . . . In the circumstances, therefore, I felt that I have no choice but to resign." Nixon accepted with a one-sentence note: "It is with the deepest regret and with an understanding of the circumstances which brought...
Hall's characters are forgettable, but as a stylist the author seems to be working toward a new kind of thriller rhetoric. His best trick is the no-transition paragraph that picks up not where the action left off but two paragraphs of conventional narration later. The reader has to guess what happened in between, and the overall effect makes him feel that he is the one out there in the desert with the vultures...
...year and concluded that its main problem was that nobody knew that it existed. Since that conclusion came out in a report last Spring, the commission has done very little to assert itself as a major force in the University. Its publicity campaign has been limited to a one paragraph mention in the handbook of undergraduate regulations, and it has not even met this year, though it has received complaints, because its two student members have not been selected...
...Nature's last stand--a 2001-type monolith which, in this case, is a wooden post. But what can the poor boy do? Why, he just takes out a syringe and shoots up. Society has destroyed its middle-class child, and an insight often stated in a well-written paragraph has been clumsily transformed into an atrocious two-hour film...
...those subpoenaed "be sealed and not made part of any public file." He has also instructed Agnew's lawyers not to discuss the testimony publicly. Whether or not this attempt to impose some rare secrecy on the Agnew case succeeds, it was clear that Hoffman's three-paragraph directive posed a perplexing array of public questions relating not only to the case but to the order itself. It also raised again the issue of how to reconcile the rights of a defendant with the rights of a free press...