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UNLV, which was put on probation in the late 1970s for NCAA transgressions, is one of the superpowers of college basketball. In a city that worships winners, "Tark the Shark" Tarkanian is a patron saint, with the highest winning percentage (82%) in the sport. Along with that come use of...
"Nobody gets on probation. All our guys graduate. National Collegiate Athletic Association," he says, pointing to your NCAA pin. "There's a word in there called collegiate. What's that mean? It means that you make decisions not because of money and not because of outside pressure. You make a...
Sections: Yes. A friend of mine revealed to me, in confidence, her secret strategy for luring the most eligible bachelors in her sections into asking her for dates. Apparently she deliberately sits opposite the Don Juan of the moment and stares mercilessly at his forehead for the entire hour. She...
Judges have traditionally enjoyed such leeway in meting out jail terms that one prisoner could serve many times as long as another for a similar crime. Concerned about unfair -- and often overly lenient -- sentences, Congress in 1984 created the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which issued a manual that greatly restricts judges...
"This is one of the most important decisions handed down by the court in this decade," said Federal Appeals Judge William Wilkins Jr. of South Carolina, the commission's chairman. The result, he said, will be "more uniform, fair and truthful sentences." The impact will reach far beyond the several...