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Nonetheless, the 1929 concordat governing relations between the Vatican and Italy allows the Pope to dispense his own justice, and once in a while a case is considered serious enough to warrant the Holy See's cranking up its rusty court machinery. Last week one such proceeding was under way: four onetime repairmen for the Vatican's telephone exchange were on trial for stealing or receiving $10,000 worth of objets d'art in cat burglaries of several apartments in the Holy See, including the Pope's own chambers...
...exciting for young people, and a melting pot for all of Boston's as well as Harvard's students. The melting-pot idea has tarnished a bit, with the Library's tourist-attraction aura toned down, but there is still enough of a potential traffic problem to warrant the environmental study and the crowd estimates...
...said in this space last November that there was growing evidence to warrant the President's impeachment. But we did not then believe it was sufficient...
BECAUSE OF the scattered, incomplete nature of the material Degler treats, his study often reads like a scrapbook of Southern dissent. Even so, some of the vignettes point toward larger questions that warrant exploration. For instance, the frequent tendency of Southern blacks as well as whites during Reconstruction to follow native-born leaders (scalawags) instead of the Northern carpetbaggers, and the daily examples of cooperation between the races during the Reconstruction period...
...same feeling of incompleteness extends from the depiction of the world and the characters to the story itself. Bowie leaves his young lover one morning and shows up down the road in inexplicable possession of a sheriff's uniform and fake warrant to procure the release from prison of one of the gang...