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While the word torture itself has an ugly stigma, Dershowitz said he would prefer that his son receive 15 lashes with a cane over staying 15 days on Riker’s Island...
...decent chance of winning a medal, particularly considering his two podium finishes on this season's World Cup circuit and his strong showing in Saturday's ski-jump leg of the two-sport event. After breaking his boot during a training jump on Thursday, Lodwick decided he'd still prefer to compete with his familiar footwear. It was a good choice. Even in difficult wind conditions, he leaped into seventh place. Bill Demong, 21, of Vermontville, NY, took eighth...
Speaker J. Dennis Hastert and other members of the House leadership prefer a competing measure which would allow individual donors to give $75,000 to each of the major parties’ three national committees in addition to unlimited money for state political parties. But this plan would do next-to-nothing; it is only a feel-good measure designed to look like reform. It would keep an incredible amount of unregulated money in politics, by pushing the problem that currently plagues national political parties to the state level and thereby ignoring the source of the problem?...
...decision makers to decide. From a military perspective, if we've given them an enhanced capability, they should be able to go ahead and do it on their own. It's teaching a guy how to catch a fish rather than just giving him a fish. I think they prefer us to come in and give them what they need to do the job themselves, and then move...
Although the Crimson would prefer to ignore the Trinity match, it realizes that, with the right mindset, the loss can be made into a positive...