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...Defense lawyers rose to Brinkema's defense when former Sen. Robert Dole, during his 1996 presidential campaign, labeled Brinkema and several other federal judges "soft on crime" at a time when Republicans were attacking individual judges for rulings they felt were too lenient. Dole focused on a case in which Brinkema reduced the sentence of a man she convicted for plotting to kill a former martial arts instructor. She rejected his insanity defense, but cited his diminished mental capacity in sentencing him to 21 months in prison rather than up to 9 years. The appeals court overturned the sentence...
...bullion and double-cross each other. Writer-director David Mamet has so many obligations to his plot that he has neither time nor energy to develop these or any other characters (played by the likes of Delroy Lindo and Ricky Jay) beyond the bounds of genre cliche. Or to dole out more than a few lines of his usually smart dialogue. The result is a well-tooled machine chugging coldly along a twisting road to nowhere...
Second, Harvard just seems to have fun dishing out failure. Apparently, sending out 16,000 rejection letters is not enough to quench the thirst of this mighty, ego-sucking beast. It’s one thing to award a prize, but it is clearly another to dole out recognition solely for the pleasure of snatching it back from unsuspecting students who probably didn’t even know the award existed in the first place. Harvard should be condemned for laughing in the corner as students stood disappointed and sulking at their mailboxes...
...Tylenol had a product-safety scare, and the government didn?t bail them out. But since Osama bin Laden declared war on our economy, Washington has decided that keeping the wobbly airline industry aloft is a matter of national security. Letting Alan Greenspan decide how to dole out the $10 billion should ensure a thoughtful distribution. But it?ll be up to Congress to decide whether they want this bailout to be a one-time rescue - or the beginning of a serious welfare addiction...
...children and spouses of firefighters and police officers, flight crews and passengers, World Trade Center and Pentagon workers—all of the victims of the attacks—have lost so much,” Dole said in a statement. “We hope that this scholarship fund will help erase some of their doubts and fears about their future...