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Good intentions do sometimes go awry, in helping the poor as in any other human endeavor. Go see the current movie of E.M. Forster's Howards End -- or read the novel -- for an exploration of that theme. But the reflexive crediting of "good intentions" has become a standard throat-clearing exercise by those who wish to attack government antipoverty programs. This serves their rhetorical purposes in two ways...
...doing, it opened up a 30-minute gap in Coleman's account. During that time, prosecutors argued, Coleman parked his truck, waded across a creek, climbed a hill the length of three football fields, raped Wanda twice, slit / her throat, then escaped unseen. The prosecutors offered no eyewitnesses and little proof to support this scenario. In a sense, the most important clues in this case may be the ones that were missing. Given the haste with which Coleman would have had to act, he might have been expected to leave telling signs behind. A fingerprint. A footprint. At the very...
Even a non-smoker expects to find cigarette fumes in the hallways and conference rooms where the lawyers huddle with clients. The non-smoker expects to have the throat irritated and the nose burn. There is something unsettling about a courthouse that does not run on nicotene...
With the 20th anniversary of Watergate only a month away, cbs hopes to interview Deep Throat. G. Gordon Liddy, now a radio talk-show host in Washington, is seeking to interview Carl Bernstein. What next? Richard Nixon on late-night TV hawking copies of his famous tapes...
...quiet good taste and honesty in materials that grew out of Chinese and Japanese ceramics. As Edward Lebow points out in his engaging catalog introduction to this show, Price, from his student days in Peter Voulkos' West Coast classes, "devoted much of his studio effort to clearing his throat and going ptooey on 'creative craft' and 'good design...