Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would come a series of votes to determine whether the case against the President was strong enough to garner the 67 ayes, or two-thirds of the Senate, needed to remove Clinton from office. If, as Lott expected, the votes weren't there, the Senate would then consider a lesser punishment, such as censure. In an interview with TIME last week, Lott called the plan "a fair start" but conceded that "the situation is very fluid. It could be blown away by any number of people or events...
...started aging beyond the most crime-prone years. Additional factors include more sophisticated and more effective law enforcement, says Barnes. "Police have analyzed what kinds of crimes serious criminals engage in routinely," he explains, "and they are nabbing suspects in their regular work, grabbing them while they engage in lesser daily crimes before they move on to more serious ones." But most worrisome, says Barnes, is the political factor: "Police have learned that there is an incentive in an era of declining crime rates to downgrade the crimes they encounter and report." That ought to be a crime...
Games like this would have surely resulted in wins against lesser teams...
...show tunes. Harvard, which according to director Colleen McGuinness '99 is predisposed towards "modern, very smart shows" rather than "big show stopper classics," is one of the few places you wouldn't expect Guys and Dolls to play. Though this "slant towards the non-traditional" was one of the lesser barriers to the show's production, Guys and Dolls will indeed open this weekend--in no less than the Hasty Pudding, which has for the last decade been the turf of the all-male theatrical company of the same name. Guys and Dolls is difficult to destroy...
...scene was straight out of "Perry Mason," or at least a lesser "Matlock": Microsoft lawyer Tom Burt hectoring Sun VP (and Java creator) James Gosling and dissing the very same technology that Burt yesterday presented as a profound threat to the future of Redmond. Burt's refrain: Java is an inferior technology...