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...Florence's gold coin (the florin) and Venice's (the ducat) became, in effect, international currencies. But banking and Catholicism were then uneasy partners: the church condemned usury -- defined then as any interest on loans -- in language harsher than bishops today use to denounce contraception. The reformers were more lenient. Gradually Europe's great centers of commerce were established in predominantly Protestant Holland and England. Innovation followed upon fiscal innovation. Grain futures were traded in Amsterdam in the 16th century. Paper currency began to replace metal coins. The first check may have been written in London...
Last year's ninth-and 10th-largest courses, Chemistry 5 and Math 1b, were ousted this year--one by a new Core course, one by a class the CUE guide lauded for its lenient requirements...
Cohen would also like to see the Catholic church take a more lenient position on the birth control issue--a move that could mean even more business for his thriving store...
...early may, the students involved in thesit-in, dubbed the Griswold Nine, went before theAdministrative Board. The students received awarning, the most lenient punishment the Ad Boardcan give. It was the first time protesters hadbeen charged since the early seventies...
Though appeals courts have been lenient in ruling that defense attorneys have done an adequate job -- judges deemed meritless all of Coleman's claims of ineffective assistance by counsel -- it's the rare court-appointed lawyer who is skilled in the complexities of capital cases. "This is a highly specialized area of law," says Harold G. Clarke, chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, who has reviewed many death sentences. "Even a good criminal lawyer may not have had much, if any, experience in capital cases." Court- appointed attorneys must also be willing to settle for modest fees that rarely...