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...with burning rags. Six days later David Ignacio, his ribs crushed, died after a two-hour battle for breath. For the three white teen-agers who confessed to the murders, their sin was locally viewed by Indian haters as mainly one of degree. Harassing drunken Indians is considered a prank by Farmington high-schoolers...
...Expletive deleted] Of course, I am not dumb and I will never forget when I heard about this [adjective deleted] forced entry and bugging. I thought, what in the hell is this? What is the matter with these people? Are they crazy? A prank! But it wasn't! It wasn't very funny. I think our Democratic friends know that, too. They know what the hell it was . . . They don't think I would be involved in such stuff . . . They think I have people capable of it. And they are correct, in that Colson would do anything...
...Nixon is the first to admit even humor has its limits. "I will never forget when I heard about this [adjective deleted] first bugging," Nixon remarks. "I thought, what the hell is this? What is the matter with these people? Are they crazy? I thought they were nuts! A prank! But it wasn't! It wasn't very funny! I think that our Democratic friends know that, too." Nevertheless, on occasion even John W. Dean III--generally consigned by the transcribers to the thankless role of a suck-up straight man--rises to Nixonian heights of sarcasm. "We were bugged...
...WOULD BE just like a Crimson editor to begin review of the Lampoon Centennial book by remarking that the best prank it describes was pulled by Crimson editors: The presentation of the Lampoon's Ibis to the Soviet Union's U.N. delegation during the Cold...
...Wexler? Could this be David Wechsler, developer of the Wechsler-Bellevue, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, and other modern tests? (Note, incidentally, that this Wechsler has not heard that the testing of adults is meaningless.) Reading that sentence, I thought for a moment that the entire piece was a prank, but this is neither the time nor the topic for April Fools'. I quickly realized that the sentence was just another manifestation of the first principle of this controversy. Dr. Benda could have included Charles the Simple in his list of early contributors and it would have been printed...