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...days of Watergate testimony. Hugh ("Duke") Sloan Jr. was selling his house in Virginia and taking a job with the Budd Company, a manufacturer of transportation equipment in Philadelphia. "What was there to do?" he asked. "I would have just looked as if I was out there trying to slay dragons." Earlier in the spring, Sloan had submitted his picture for the class yearbook, a posed gathering of his parents, his wife and the Nixons outside the White House-a fitting photo to illustrate Princeton's unofficial motto: "In the Nation's Service...
...ends in a hasty melodramatic knitting of loose strands. Maas' reportage resolutely refuses to go beyond Serpico's own viewpoint. Whittemore is worst of all, portraying his heroes without a fleck of imperfection. They burst into pushers' apartments but somehow never violate any constitutional rights. They slay two big-time drug suppliers, but the regrettable bloodletting really happens because other cops fail to back them up properly. They manage to get convictions on more than 90% of the 600 suspects they arrest, with no explanation of why the judicial system functions so well for them...
Jeffrey D. Bernhard of Quincy House, Jason W. Slay of Winthrop House, Neil H. Jacobs of South House, H. Michael Levenson of Dunster House, Samuel I. Scheffler of Mather House, Craig H. Ulman of Lowell House, Robert J. Waldinger of Adams House, and Bradford B. Walters of Currier House have been awarded Knox Fellowships for a year at any British university...
Finally, the Megadeath group comes on and slays huge portions of the crowd-with its amplifiers. Lemmings will slay many many more with its high-voltage humor. «T.E.K...
...wooden weapons in individual duels, melees with nine men on a side, and a violent game of chess in which each piece is represented by a human warrior who walks out the moves dictated by his king. But instead of merely capturing an opponent's piece, he must "slay" the occupant of a contested square...