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...sense to abandon street crime for far more lucrative suite crime, which requires brains, training and access to important decisions from which blacks have long been excluded. Someday a black financier will have the power to commit a massive fraud that shakes stock markets around the world, get a slap on the wrist from the courts and walk away with millions. Blacks will have secured a new civil right: the equal opportunity to steal big-time, just like the white guys...
...censure of Vice President Joshua D. Liston '95 was declared void due to a technicality. After Liston had already admitted breaking council bylaws by not enforcing the attendance policy during the semester, the censure attempt was a half-hearted slap-on-the-wrist after the motion to expel him from his position failed only two weeks before. Liston's flagrantly illegitimate behavior has thus been validated by the council's own incompetence...
...casualties and the civilian suffering, from not only the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki but also conventional B-29 bombing. The Committee for the Restoration and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9,000 signatures of protest. The Air Force Association claims the proposed exhibition is "a slap in the face to all Americans who fought in World War II" and "treats Japan and the U.S. as if their participation in the war were morally equivalent...
...gets just a slap-on-the-wrist one-game suspension and a fine which is less than he makes for doing a commercial...
...White House is set to slap trade sanctions on Taiwan...