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...time to get the paint and wine if he was going to make the basketball game at the local Boys' Club. He hurried outside and WHAM-the long arm of the law nabbed him. Shoplifting! Yes, there was the unpaid-for pack of Cuesta-Reys in his pocket. But look here, officer . . . Down at the McLean substation they booked, mugged and fingerprinted former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, then released him to appear in court Jan. 28. "It's just incredible to me that this sort of thing can happen to an American," sputtered Udall. "I want...
...with one bus carrying half the team going to Columbia and the other one quickly fading out of view, in a direction marked 'Downtown finally got to the hotel everyone was Newark'," Donovan said. "When we really down and tired. I had started the day with $300 in my pocket but due to meal expenses, etc. I had only $25 when I reached Columbia, eight hours after scheduled arrival. The kids really had a bad trip, it hurt team morale and I think it had a lot to do with losing the game...
...told to do so and because that was the way the System functioned. With a laugh, he recalls seeing one Senator pass $10,000 on the Senate floor to a colleague who had a reputation for righteousness; the recipient overcame his scruples in the time it took to pocket the money. Though he never felt that he was doing anything evil, Baker does consider the ways in which political campaigners are financed to be "a national cancer. I've been a part of it, so I know. It will destroy this country unless something is done. People are selling...
...into the ring for another seven weeks, but a 170-lb. Hollywood talent agent who quit boxing in college to go to work is already declaring himself the winner. No matter who is named heavyweight champion of the world on March 8, Promoter Jerry Perenchio figures that he will pocket several million dollars in personal profit. "I've been training for this fight all the time that I've been an agent," says the 40-year-old Perenchio. "This is the greatest event since I've been alive...
...point. Americans widely ignore laws they dislike, whether against gambling or marijuana. The nicest people steal: roughly 75% of insurance claims are partly fraudulent. Uncaught employees pocket $1 billion a year from their employers. To poor offenders who go to jail without bail the system is unfair, and the legal process strengthens that opinion. If a man cannot afford a good lawyer, he is pressured to plead guilty without a trial, as do 90% of all criminal defendants. He then discovers that for the same crime, different judges hand out wildly disparate sentences, from which 31 states and the federal...