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...stuck to her story, denying that she hurt Matthew. With a smile often threatening to break out on her face, she showed no sign of anger or malice that might support a murder charge. "I don't think any of us really believed this was a murder case per se," said Laurence Hardoon, former head of the child-abuse prosecution unit in Middlesex County. "It would have been different if she had dropped him from a three-story building or stabbed a knife into him. But shaking--that's a real gray area...
That is not to blame the theory of communism per se as the cause of these famines--it can be argued that these famines are just examples of the poor execution (no pun intended) of the communist ideal. However, I do mean to point out that these regimes used the same rationale to justify their excesses: the rights of the collective over the rights of the individual...
...reviewed all the tapes last week before sending them to the Justice Department and Senator Fred Thompson's Governmental Affairs Committee. The 103 White House coffees were the most creative--and controversial--fund-raising technique invented by either party for the 1996 campaign. There was no admission fee per se, but past donors and potential givers were treated to a special set of Washington briefings with top officials that culminated in an hourlong session with the President. The events normally took place in the cozy, first-floor Map Room, a tastefully furnished, book-lined enclave in the Executive Mansion where...
...Harvard per se," she said. "It's all the developmental pressure of which Harvard is a part...
Benson Saler and Charles A. Ziegler, professors of anthropology at Brandeis University, have just published a study of what they call the Roswell Myth, which in their view has "religious-like" elements without being religion per se. Its primary purpose, Saler and Ziegler say, is twofold. One is as a means of social protest, in that the Roswell story is in great part an antigovernment narrative; as Zeigler points out, the Incident was largely ignored until the late '70s, when it resurfaced and resonated with a public made cynical by those twin devils, Vietnam and Watergate. By then...