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Krohn said he did not really expect his case to be taken seriously on the district court level. "Pro se litigants [people who argue their own cases] tend to be treated as cranks," he said...
That is all the plot there is. Brooks assumes that all he needs is a premise, and he may be right. The movie is a se ries of set pieces for Mel and the boys...
Inevitably, the books cited are mainly concerned with the fighting and the men who fought. Readers deeply imbued with the modern notion that wars are per se bad and boring, that wars never settle anything anyway, are advised to check these sentiments at the library door. Then, as now, to be sure, geopolitics, diplomacy, economics, and above all, sheer chance, played a vast role in the affairs of men. But Americans and Englishmen of 200 years ago, unlike men today, lumped all such contingencies under the heading of Providence. They clearly believed that a few brave men, with some help...
What is a cultivated, conservative man from Metropolitan Mutual doing in a place like that? The fact is that Lambeth is delicious and Muhlbach is bored. He would not put it quite that way but Señor Rafael Lopez y Fuentes, a Honduran diplomat does. Lopez is a captivatingly unctuous minor character whom Lambeth has lightly discarded. He does more than take pleasure in trying to warn Muhlbach about the hazards of playing with wildfire; he takes him to see Double Honeymoon, a porn movie in which the girl has a rather animated part. Only her death (she either...
Environmentalists have strong arguments for Congressmen to consider too. "We don't oppose clear-cutting per se," says Tom Barlow, coordinator of the Coalition to Save Our National Forests. Rather, the environmentalists are against clear-cutting 1,000 acres at a time, which destroys wildlife habitats, and clear-cutting on steep slopes, which causes rivers to silt up. The environmentalists merely want, says Barlow, "sensible, balanced forest management" -meaning long-term protection of the forests for recreation, wildlife and other uses as well as for continued lumbering...