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Meanwhile, the decision encouraged reformers who are unhappy about wide variations in punishment. They have been pressing legislatures to allow the sometimes capricious decisions of sentencing judges to be re-examined at higher levels. "With appellate review," says University of Virginia Law Professor John Jeffries, "defendants across the board will...
Freshman Brad Jeffries, who has been fencing only a few months, turned in a strong performance in two 5-4 bouts and downed Holy Cross's first-ranked saberman.
After dropping two of her first five touches to Loretta Jeffries, the only Rhode Island fencer who moved back and forth on the balls of her feet rather than clomping up and down like a flat-footed Frankenstein, Lowry captured 18 of her last 19 points in winning all four...
> Two-term Democratic Representative Martha Keys of Kansas once had a twelve-point lead in polls over conservative Republican Jim Jeffries. But right-to-life adherents ganged up on her, and others doubted her ability to combine her marriage to Indiana Representative Andrew Jacobs with representing Kansas. Said Jeffries: "Martha...
London came to take himself very seriously indeed. He thought of himself as a socialist, though he was the highest-paid writer of his day-making over $70,000 a year, owning four houses at one time plus a $30,000 ketch named the Snark.* Worse, as a Darwinian, London...