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Bruce should be an example to us all on hour to shorten long passages One example from Dickens suffices. Great Expectations begins. "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit that Pip." The Great Expectation version: "My name is Pip Pirrip," Punchy and to the point...
...Then there is the matter of parole. Four states have done away with it entirely, and in others its use has gone from prudent to stinting. Since 1977, 37 states have passed mandatory sentencing laws for certain crimes, which inflexibly deny judges the right to shorten or suspend sentences...
Although student voters and apparently the Faculty approve of the funded, centralized structure, the "no" voters questioning the new government's legitimacy may shorten the already-small amount of patience students have in the past demonstrated with the performance of their elected representatives...
Harvard led 8-0 after 40 minutes of play, and coach John Dooley, with humanitarian intentions, agreed to shorten the third period by five minutes. The teams traded goals in the abbreviated stanza...
Regional primaries: Though few professors endorse it, most call this oft-heard suggestion a promising possibility. By limiting primaries to four days of the campaign, this regional system would shorten the primary season, reduce the clout of early primaries like New Hampshire's, and give greater hope to potential candidates already holding elective office because less campaigning time presumably would be needed. Unless otherwise amended, though, a system of regional primaries would not increase the influence of party officials--which most analysts see as crucial. Still, the proposal is far more popular than the one-day national primary concept, which...