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...echoed a few hours later at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council by Charles Lichenstein, the U.S. acting permanent representative. "Let us call the crime for what it is, wanton, calculated, deliberate murder," he said. While the Soviet delegate, Richard S. Ovinnikov stared icily into space, Lichenstein spelled out what "we might expect a normal, civilized government" to do in the event of a tragedy like that of Flight 007, including the admission of responsibility and the undertaking of steps to ensure that it never happens again. For its part, the Soviet Union is simply "lying-openly...
...enforcement agencies have difficulty dealing with physical abuse that falls short of wanton cruelty or life-endangering acts. The line between a generally approved spanking and a beating that escalates into brutality and illegality is often fuzzy. But the law, like society in general, is not ambivalent about sexual abuse of children. Incest, usually defined as intercourse between blood relatives extending through first cousins, is illegal in every state. Sexual offenders who are not family members may be charged with rape, child molesting or similar crimes. Pedophiles, who have an obsessive fixation on sex with children, can abuse their...
...tribulations in this academic community go far beyond publish or perish. There is the oh-so-smooth college president who is scheming to become a political bigwig. There is the cuckolded football coach whose wanton wife is exchanging signals with the star quarterback. There is the ogreish dean who keeps his pristine daughter locked away in his gothic manse. Meanwhile, no one seems to be paying much attention to books, lectures, homework or grades. That is because Alden University exists only in a mythical grove called Soapland and in the mind of a woman who creates worlds that flicker...
Inspiration is abundant (though not always cheap) at the Thomas More book shop in Holyoke Center which features religious works But if your tastes are more wanton you'll be happier in the basement of 99 Mt Auburn where the Million Year Picnic stacks show off superheroes not the supernatural comic books and the their lore...
...wonderful Islanders and their wanton goalie...