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...will also try to destroy the credibility of a main prosecution witness, James Timothy Hoffman, a former drug dealer and onetime California neighbor of De Lorean's, who helped get De Lorean involved with the undercover agents. The defense will claim that Hoffman enticed De Lorean into the trap and even used threats in warning him not to pull out. The prosecution will argue that De Lorean had freely sought Hoffman's help in acquiring much needed cash from drug sources...
Hart like John F. Kennedy '40, represents the diametric opposite of his Republican opponent. Kennedy triumphed over a craggy Richard M. Nixon, and Hart can triumph over a 73-year-old Reagan. Furthermore, Harts, distance from the party establishment--most of which fell into the Mondale trap--guarantees that he will not be doomed to follow the same worn political path. Mondale spent a lifetime carefully climbing up through the party, making the right friends, allying himself with the party establishment and reviving the old labor alliance. He is a player, not leader...
When the four men and one woman strolled out of an office building in Shrewsbury, N.J., near New York City, they thought they had just wrapped up a $1.25 million business deal. Instead, they had stumbled into a trap. Twenty U.S. customs agents surrounded and handcuffed the five. The charge: conspiring to smuggle classified, high-technology military equipment to China...
During the Depression, he bought a 40-acre farm in North Brooklin on the Maine sea-coast (where he lives to this day), and beat the first of several retreats from the tender trap of The New Yorker. A mystified Ross was heard to complain: "He just sails around in some God damn boat." During his sabbaticals White also compiled (with Katharine) the enormously successful A Subtreasury of American Humor; he revised and updated the yellowing strictures of one of his Cornell English professors into The Elements of Style, a tiny textbook that has sold in the millions; he wrote...
...Harvard evaded the Blue Devils' trap, and the prey proved almost as shrewd as the hunter--perhaps even shrewder, considering the dominating talent of the Duke cagers...