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...their closest, England and France are a scant 18 miles apart. But the emotional gap is virtually infinite. Take, for example, the reliable litmus of crime. As two new films demonstrate, the accounts of evildoer and pursuant vary enormously with the turf. The favored French mode is the grittily realistic roman policier, in which the detective, like Simenon's Inspector Maigret, is presumed human, hence flawed. In England both criminal and captor implicitly play the gentlemanly hare-and-hounds game-a legacy of what W.H. Auden called the "guilty vicarage" tradition...
...facto nature of those restrictions, Nuremberg mainly proved that losing a war had become a crime under international law. Few recalled that some Allied leaders had wanted no trials?just summary executions. Nuremberg also produced a new U.N.-approved rule of civilized behavior: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him." The U.S. Manual of Courts-Martial
...USSR at least one month who have not previously been investigated should be selected for investigation. Specifically, the Bureau instructed that United States passport records be checked regarding the individuals meeting the criteria and the information be forwarded to the office covering the residence for further investigation pursuant to current Bureau instructions as outlined in Section 105-G, Manual of Instructions. The office covering the subject's residence is being designated office of origin...
...course, be used for the purpose specified.) Radcliffe should also endeavor to increase both endowment and current giving to close the budget gap and meet new needs. For its part, Harvard should use the Radcliffe income to pay the Radcliffe expenses and provide the balance of what is required, pursuant to the following provisions: (1) the budget for activities retained by Radcliffe (including admissions and financial aids) would be reviewed and approved by a committee representing the Governing Boards of each institution and composed of equal numbers from Harvard and Radcliffe; (2) if Radcliffe fund raising in any year should...
...into a million prisons, or urge his genius to touch just beyond its comfort. The condition of language at present may be compared, more or less unemotionally, to a stupefied, labyrinthine torture-house, which is nothing but unconnecting hallways, with only one way forward, the floor creeping with pursuant poison to the rear. Keep the words pure and the laws will be just, said Ezra Pound. It's an admonition, not a solution, The only way is poetry, for poets have less rubbish in their heads than other men. They have the power of symbol. Great poets possess the power...