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Tastes have changed slightly, too. "Kids, eat a little lighter and more sophisticated today," Mr. Bartley says, so the Cottage menu now sports salads and such exotica as hummus and tabbouley salad, and potato skins with guacamole. But the specialty of the house has not changed. "People like hamburgers--they always have and they always will," he says...
...think it's bad here, you ought to see it in Tennessee." The Justice Department made haste to do exactly that, eventually prosecuting 44 cases in that state alone. Among those nailed: the brother and uncle of former Governor Ray Blanton. As guilty contractors began plea bargaining for lighter sentences and lower fines, they implicated other firms outside Tennessee, a process that quickly revealed an ever widening web of anticompetitive conspiracy...
...conviction rate in cases brought to trial is not solely due to tough application of the codes. Prosecutors rarely go before the bench unless their case is a strong one. Moreover, the confession rate is very high. Japan's 2,774 judges are often moved to impose lighter sentences by pleas of remorse. Writer Frank Gibney, an expert on Japan, observes, "Be it only a traffic accident, if a person has caused injury to another, he is well advised to rush to the hospital with flowers and gifts for the victim...
Renard, the first and lighter of the two showcases the skills of some talented dancers and displays the work of choreographer Decborah Wolf. Wolf's challenge is to project convincing illusions of a fox a rooster a cat and a goat through the bodies costumed only abstractly of four human dancers...
...lighter moments were not generated by political ambition, however. A late April council resolution allocated 20 cents to Princeton University's Dean of Admissions James W. Wickenden. The funds were aimed to cover the prick of a postage stamp because council members had heard that the dean had travelled to Florida to deliver the verdict of admission personally to model/actress Bookie shields...