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...railway brakeman. He also made a friend, nicknamed College, whose family in Maine welcomed Jonathan after their son's death. Jonathan traveled the country in a vain search for his father -- someone to give him an anchor and a bloodline. In time he became a circuit rider and a pioneer farmer. He married and sired children. He neither forgot nor forgave the past. The novel's climax is a fatal, vengeful encounter with his boyhood nemesis, Alvah Stoke's son George, who had become a U.S. Senator...
Heinicke, who originally opposed the "negligence" rider in the council debate over the definition, said the Faculty Council thought the rider was unnecessary...
...traditional case of self-defense, a jury is presented a "snapshot" of a crime: the mugger threatens a subway rider with a knife; the rider pulls a gun and shoots his attacker. It is up to the jurors to decide whether the danger was real and immediate and whether the response was reasonable. A woman who shoots her husband while he lunges at her with a knife should have little trouble claiming that she acted in self-defense. Yet lawyers still find jurors to be very uncomfortable with female violence under any circumstances, especially violence directed...
Conservative messianic light source. Has adirect line to God. Peninsula council member. Mr.Blue Square. Former president of AALARM. OperationRESCUE joy-rider...
...right then. If the young won't respect a living legend, a man has to tend to it himself. Unforgiven, Eastwood's first western since Pale Rider in 1985, is a dark, passionate drama with good guys so twisted and bad guys so persuasive that virtue and villainy become two views of the same soul. But it is also Eastwood's meditation on age, repute, courage, heroism -- on all those / burdens he has been carrying with such good grace for decades. On Clintessence...