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Typical of the more questionable characters on the stage of the German resistance was Rhodes Scholar Adam von Trott zu Solz. Because of his vehement loyalty to Germany, many of Trott's English friends suspected him of being a Nazi...

Author: By Liam T. A. ford, | Title: Style Defeats Substantive Portrait of German World War II Resistance Leader, Scholar: | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

...Smith not guilty of raping a woman at his family's Palm Beach estate last Easter weekend. The swift decision raised questions about the prosecution's case, which boiled down to pitting the accuser's harrowing tale of being pinned to the ground and violated against Smith's equally vehement denials. Many prosecutors would have dropped the case as unwinnable. Why then did State Attorney David Bludworth and Moira Lasch, his chief felony attorney, decide to press ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palm Beach Trial | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...everyone agrees. In the past, many Cantabrigians have criticized Walsh's conduct. And much of the criticism centered around his vehement opposition to rent control legislation. Along with Russell, Walsh has consistently voted against rent control bills and in favor of developer interests...

Author: By Melissa Lee and Mark L. Ruberg, S | Title: A Councillor's Financial Activities Come Under the Magnifying Glass | 12/19/1991 | See Source »

Financial successes and woes seem to have divided many Inman Square shopkeepers into ardent Walsh supporters and vehement opponents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inman Square: a neighborhood's traditional business community makes the painful move to a more modern economy. | 10/29/1991 | See Source »

Though dissenters are both numerous and vehement, the consensus of analysts, South African and foreign, is that enough progress has been made to speed the embargo on its way to oblivion, as President George Bush did last week. As a positive incentive to keep reform going, he rescinded the bans on most trade with South Africa and on new investment in the country, enacted in 1986 over Ronald Reagan's veto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: A Black-and-White Future | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

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