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...said City Councillor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87. “Certainly, for every pension system in the state, it’s been a rough year. But we’re fortunate that, because we behave more like an ant than a grasshopper, we’re more prepared to handle the economic winter than anybody else...
...Koenigs says he was forced to choose between his beloved ant farm, with 800 insects, and his education due to the College’s “unreasonable” restrictions on pets...
...life for an ant scheme. That’s the principle that Chinese administrators put in practice last week when they executed Wang Zhendong for fraud. Zhendong had duped investors out of over 400 million dollars with a bogus plan to breed ants with aphrodisiac effects. China thus established a clear policy of (very) tough justice for white-collar criminals who operate on a large scale...
...Consider that the multi-billion-dollar scale of Enron executives’ criminal conduct and its destructive effect on innocent people dwarfs the ant scam; however, former CEO Jeffrey Skilling received just 24 years in prison, and two of his associates (and accomplices) could win parole after just five years behind bars...
...hated my damn ant farm and she let 800 ants starve to death,” he said...