But it was also a promise of a lifetime of escapist responsibility-free fun, and that if you followed his advice about being an American James Bond without the gadgets, you too could get that girl.

Along the way, he built a magazine that became known for excellent interviews and feature pieces written by some of the best writers alive. Among them was William F. Buckley, who wrote frequently for Playboy on all manner of topics. The magazine featured his 9,000 word debate with Norman Mailer, an 8,500 word essay on Richard Nixon in China, and writings on everything from communism to Y2K. James Rosen has a lengthy piece on the relationship between WFB and Hefner here.

Why did Bill Buckley, if he found the Playboy Philosophy so abhorrent, write for    CALCULATION OF CRIMINAL HISTORY SCORE

        Yera contends that the district judge improperly calculated his criminal history score by adding

four points for two sentences resulting from guilty pleas entered in state court on December 9, 1988.

The addition of those four criminal history points elevated defendant’s criminal history from category

I to category III. Yera urges that pursuant to United States Sentencing Guidelines (U.S.S.G.)

§4A1.2(e) those convictions are too remote in time from the instant criminal activity to be factored

into the criminal history score.

        Before the district court Yera objected to the inclusion of those two prior sentences in the


              