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Conspiracy. A broad-gauged section of the U.S. Code makes it a crime to conspire to defraud the Federal Government of money or property; the doctrine also applies to efforts to interfere with the proper functioning of any Government agency. Though it is difficult to prove conspiracy, siphoning off arms-sales profits that may have belonged to the U.S. Treasury, selling weapons under incorrect procedures, and the jumble of other deceptions could qualify. North was named, but not indicted, as a co-conspirator in a tax fraud involving improper deductions claimed for contributions used to purchase contra arms...
Brought up in Texas, Satterwhite came to the magazine staff in 1976 after ten years at Time Inc.'s editorial library and a year in Paris doing research for a book. By November of that year, she had become the head researcher in the Nation section, where for eight years she was immersed in the news and in managerial challenges as well, adapting the section's routine to events each week. Nowadays, when she is not gently cajoling or encouraging her staff, Satterwhite spends her free moments working on the economic theories and equations she is studying for her M.B.A...
...segueing from a raunchy growl to an angelic trill in a single line -- no sweat. She coaxes the back-street torch song Saving All My Love for You until the song's Other Woman sounds like a little girl lost in faded rapture. She stands up to the string section in that anthem of enlightened egotism, Greatest Love of All, finding the prettiest weave of velvet and voltage. Then the synthesized percussion starts blasting, and she escalates into purring teen ecstasy for How Will I Know and her new hit I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me). This...
...founders is clear, it is the issue of slavery. Says Columbia Law Professor Jack Greenberg, former director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund: "The original Constitution not only accepted slavery, but it gave the South a bonus for it" -- the stipulation in Article I, Section 3 that in apportioning Representatives for the House, "three fifths of all other persons" should be added to the "whole number of free persons...
...strafed civilians waters the countryside, turning it into poppy fields. The drama is desaturated too. The soldiers have no ideals to defend, just their asses; the accompanying music is not Samuel Barber but inane party rock of the '60s like Wooly Bully and Surfin' Bird. In this second section the movie becomes a notebook of anecdotes, always compelling, but rarely propelling the story toward its climax. Unlike Oliver Stone's Platoon, with which it will unfortunately be compared, Kubrick's film does not want to say every last word about Viet Nam. It wants to isolate a time, a place...