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...penalty for possession of even a minuscule amount is a misdemeanor punishable by one year in prison and $1,000. Penalties are higher for cultivation, sale and crossing state lines. However, magistrates generally use state and local laws as sentencing guidelines - unless there is federal intervention, which doesn't occur in every drug case because they would increase court time and costs...
...surmounted the script to skillfully convey each patient’s individual insanity. For instance, the painfully long smiles of depressed nurse Norma (Christine K.L. Bendorf ’10) and her fluid movements in the opening monologue presaged the abrupt jumps from one emotion to another that would occur throughout the play. Unfortunately, Bendorf sometimes delivered her lines with a nagging rhythm that reduced their effectiveness...
...these discussions were initially focused around the departure of then-President Summers, French professor Christie McDonald continued to organize this unofficial Caucus of Chairs, even after Summers stepped down. Their talks expanded into discussions of the curricular review and faculty growth. It would seem fitting for such discussions to occur within the faculty, but many of the chairs are dissatisfied with the University structure...
...simply gonna change music forever, and the way people think about music. And don’t think we can’t do it, we will.”Dean DeBlois’s directorial work is spectacularly disjointed. Rapid shifts from concert to landscape and back again occur throughout. At one point the looks deeply focused on their music, and in the next frame pianist Kjartan Sveinsson leans on his keyboard and stares into the distance. During the portions of the film where the band is shown performing, the audio occasionally doesn’t match the accompanying...
...Political clans also scorn accountability. Benazir Bhutto's past two terms in office as Pakistan's Prime Minister were marked by massive corruption - under her rule, Transparency International ranked Pakistan as the world's second most corrupt nation, after Nigeria. Corruption can occur in any political system, but dynastic politics makes it worse. An expectation of entitlement reduces a politician's fear that he or she will be caught robbing the till, and the certainty that their sons or daughters will follow provides even more security that he or she will be protected from any future attempts to investigate corruption...