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...white-collar criminals due for a sympathy vote? Everyone expected the punishment to be harsh when L. Dennis Kozlowski, the former CEO of Tyco International, and former Tyco finance chief Mark Swartz were sentenced Monday, and indeed it was: up to up to 25 years in prison. But now defense lawyers and, increasingly, many others are wondering if white-collar criminals are being treated too harshly. Some violent crimes, including rape and manslaughter, can result in less than 20 years in jail...
...unfortunate that The Crimson Staff chose to publicly berate the Class of 2009 (“Reality Click,” editorial, Sep. 14), stating that our freshmen are unwelcome, and that Harvard is a largely unfriendly and mean place. Such harsh words, from a voice as prominent and respected as The Crimson, do a disservice to all of the students and organizations that try hard to foster a sense of community. This illusion of an acrid social culture risks discouraging and alienating members of the freshman class who have not yet experienced the life and people at Harvard...
...democratic institutions. The Fellows of Harvard College need consensus, good faith, calm deliberation, and open minds. It would not be sensible to recommend putting a radical firebrand on the Corporation. But the amicable consensus that permits the Corporation to run the University as it judges fit, out of the harsh glare of the public eye, need not be a rigid unanimity that threatens to blind the Corporation to the nature of the many problems that Harvard has faced, does face, and will face again...
...tried (so far unsuccessfully) to set up a joint venture to manufacture cigarettes in China. U.S. giant Altria, formerly Philip Morris, has also been negotiating with the government to manufacture and sell its top-selling Marlboro brand on the mainland. Indeed, with most Chinese smokers hacking away from the harsh, high-tar brands produced by the state-owned monopoly, the China National Tobacco Corporation, foreign companies have been stumbling over themselves to hawk their wares...
...savage hooks and spears. Tsui's camera lingers on slashed throats and chopped hands twitching in the dirt. Even the good guys use massive medieval swords with serrated edges, weapons that seem better suited to Conan the Barbarian than elegant martial-arts masters. The brutality is underscored by the harsh desert scenery of Xinjiang. Tsui takes out the arts and leaves the martial?but it's arresting to watch...