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MAN. A human being. This definition includes not only the adult male sex of
the human species, but women and children; examples: "of offences against
man, some are more immediately against the king, other's more immediately
against the subject." Hawk. P. C. book 1, c. 2, s. 1. Offences against the
life of man come under the general name of homicide, which in our law
signifies the killing of a man by a man." Id. book 1, c. 8, s. 2.
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Similarly, he makes straw men of Arthur Waldron (The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth [Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990]) and of Allen Whiting (The Chinese Calculus of Deterrence: India and Indochina [Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1975]), depicting their views of the Chinese as one-dimensionally peace loving and loath to use force. It helps here that Lamin Sanneh does not set up straw men. Dutton as a wise old trainer, Tim Daly as a TV sports reporter) and an opposing team of glass-jawed straw men (Joe Cortese as her chauvinist pig boss, Tony Shalhoub as a mobbed-up rival promoter). |
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