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...more in number the faces are lighter. Accordingly, the center of gravity favors the 1-2-3 faces, and the faces 6-5-4, which are just opposite, come up. The potential energy of a system tends toward least. Physics or no physics, the theorem holds for your wallet...
...money" for well-placed civil servants. In Indonesia, soldiers stop autos at gunpoint to extort fees from travelers, wander into shops to demand goods for nothing. In Thailand, the wise businessman bidding on a government contract might end his visit to a government official by letting a well-filled wallet slip to the floor and exclaiming: "Why, you've dropped your wallet with 50,000 bahts [$2,400] in it!" One foreign contractor who did just that was dumfounded when the Thai official calmly replied, "Oh, no, I dropped my wallet with 150,000 bahts...
...University Police also provide students with personal and unofficial services. Dean Monro often sends students in trouble to Chief Tonis, whose law degree enables him to serve as "a semi-legal authority." And one senior remembers when his wallet was stolen on a Saturday night his Freshman year. The policeman on duty asked him if he had a date, and when the student replied that he did and had no money, the officer lent him ten dollars and told him "to bring it back sometime...
Candidates for Radcliffe class marshal must bring a wallet sized photo, a typed (triple spaced) list of activities, and two dollars, to the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton Street before 5 p.m. today...
According to Carlston, his assailants struck him, pushed him to the ground, and then kicked him. The youths then tore a watch from his wrist, though they did not try to steal his wallet...