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...Precious prison space must also be allocated more judiciously. Penologists say that means not only finding alternative penalties for nonviolent offenders, but offering parole to rehabilitated old-timers. Often the hotheads who enter the system while still in their teens and 20s chill out by their 30s and 40s. Life-means-life sentences do a disservice on several fronts. Taxpayers pay ever steeper costs for aging inmates, who require more medical care; wardens are stripped of the ability to motivate these prisoners; and the lifers sink into a hopelessness that can be dangerous...
Most Americans may consider Zhirinovsky's statements an empty threat, but the United States could be in danger of losing more than 500,000 square miles of valuable land, including precious oil fields, according to Sloan S. Johnston...
...weaponry" is an extremely effective tool for advancement, he recognizes that this struggle has been and still needs to be physical as Well. Violence is certainly not on his agenda, but he does believe "that one never rules out any from of struggle when one is struggling for such precious things as freedom and dignity." Not only does every man and women have the abilities necessary to participate in this struggle, but every man and women has that obligation...
...million, Fruit of the Loom used 30 seconds of the song, with writer Nash himself rerecording it. "I'm not that precious about my music. We're not talking Mozart here," he said...
...diminishes the original. But it doesn't entirely escape redundancy. Urquhart hires a pretty young political operative (Kitty Aldridge) who is seduced by his power just as investigative reporter Mattie Storin was in House of Cards. Urquhart's asides to the camera, charming in the first part, become somewhat precious and predictable by the end of the second...