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...didn't resist," he continued "All said was, 'What have I done...
Qube, Warner-Amex's two-way cable service, is just shaking down in Dallas, but there is some apprehension that it may be too good to resist. Customers pay a monthly $9.95 for access to 80 channels and the Qube system, then an additional fee for each of the five subscription channels. There will soon be hundreds of pay-per-view attractions each month that could turn a video freak into an unintentional deadbeat. In conjunction with the Dallas city council, Warner-Amex has discussed setting a debt ceiling for customers. In Columbus, Warner-Amex officials already have...
BOTH JUSTICES emerge as men whose extensive pre-Court political activity so accustomed them to practical politics that they could not resist the temptation to intervene in executive of legislative affairs Brandeis, a Woodrow Wilson appointee who served on the Court between 1916 and 1939, had previously been a Populistic "People's Attorney," a Zionist and opponent of trusts on whom Wilson relied for regular advice...
...Justice proffered his advice quietly but persistently, using Wilson lieutenants as intermediaries. The depth of his feeling on several prominent issues of the day the need for a Zionist homeland and the cause of Progressivism also made behind-the-scenes lobbying for specific policies a temptation Brandeis could not resist...
...most cases, life went on. For those not being persecuted, the occupation was far from unbearable. And that is tragically understandable. Why run the risk of death, why resist, when one can continue as before to create, to make a living, to service? Few liked the Germans, but they could live with them. This indifferences--not just that of some Left Bankers but of France as a whole--cost millions of lives. That we can understand it makes the phenomenon all the more terrifying...