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...small child. Judge Edward Cashman sentenced a man who raped a young girl for four years to a measly 60 days in prison. According to O’Reilly, the judge doesn’t believe in punishing sex offenders, perfect evidence for the pressing need for harsher mandatory minimum sentences to keep liberal judges like Cashman in line. What better proof could one want of arrogant liberal judges completely distorting the law to suit their own ideology, right? It’s almost too horrifying to be true—and it isn?...
Through e-mails, Hegarty asked residents of McKinlock Hall—commonly known as Old Leverett—to refrain from using sinks, showers, and toilets until after 2:30 p.m., while workers attempted to keep damage to a minimum and identify the origin of the flooding...
These paintings were extraordinary for several reasons. They reduced Stella’s role as a painter to the absolute minimum of applying black paint to an empty canvas—the white “lines” were actually thin strips of bare canvas showing through the gaps between stripes of black paint. Furthermore, the geometric pattern of lines—dubbed “deductive structure” by critics—was derived from the rectangle of the canvas, a frank acknowledgement of materiality directly opposed to traditional painting...
...sense that this experimentation is both very disciplined and very thorough, and it was no doubt thanks to this extended research that Stella was able to arrive at the elegant simplicity of the black paintings. They represent the same combination of stripes and rectangles reduced to a bare minimum; the stripes and the background are created simultaneously through the application of only one color, and the rectangular element becomes the canvas itself and so does not need to be painted...
...while Bush's budget includes making the tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 permanent-some, like the repeal of the estate tax, are due to expire in 2010-it counts on revenues from some unlikely sources. One of the biggest is the so-called Alternative Minimum Tax, which was designed many years ago to keep the rich from using deductions and other loopholes to get away with paying too little tax. But because of inflation, millions of middle-class Americans have now crept into the AMT zone-especially in high-tax states where state and local taxes...