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...about both Amvets and Salvation Army drivers taking donations left beside the Goodwill boxes. Amvets Pickup Manager John J. Walsh is properly incensed at any such short cuts to good deeds. "There's enough out there for all of us," he contends. "We don't have to steal from each other...
Shortly before dawn one day last week, while riots in the Puerto Rican section of Camden, N.J., were diverting the local police, eight men and women stole into the federal offices in the courthouse. They were determined to steal or destroy FBI documents and federal draft records. Instead, they stepped into a well-laid trap. Three floors below the Government offices, a team of FBI agents awaited their furtive entrance. By the time the roundup was completed, the agents had nabbed the eight intruders as well as 20 of their confederates who had been assigned various sentinel and communications tasks...
...focus, step-by-step itineraries and logistical minutiae. He inventories the furnishings of De Gaulle's office, and feels compelled to specify that the chauffeured, black Citroën DS 19s circle the courtyard of the Elysée Palace counterclockwise. But on such things as how to steal a passport or select an assassination site, his expertise is extraordinarily compelling...
...descend like a shroud, suffocating much of the movie's energy and momentum. Uraz and the servant meet an outcast woman named Zereh (Leigh Taylor-Young), who promptly turns the men against each other. She even tries to get the servant to murder Uraz so that they may steal his fine white horse. Delirious with pain from his broken leg, Uraz is beleaguered by the elements, his traveling companions, and his own sense of shame. He retaliates by tempting Zereh and taunting the servant, thereby making the journey more difficult and the allegory more dense...
...opinion of those who reach Stage 6, unjust laws may be broken, because morality is grounded not in legality or in specific rules like the Ten Commandments but in abstract principles of justice and respect for the individual. At this level, a 16-year-old told Kohlberg he would steal to save a life because "human life is above financial gain...