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...constitutional because it provided clear guidelines for deciding whether a particular murderer deserved death. But last week, while listening to oral arguments in a new Florida case. Justice Potter Stewart suddenly took off his glasses and angrily leaned back in his chair. "This court," he told stale lawyers, "upheld that statute on the representation of the state of Florida that this was an open and aboveboard proceeding. This case gets here, and it's apparent that it isn't." What had piqued Stewart was the disclosure that a damaging presentencing report to the judge had been kept secret...
...like champion (Carl Weathers) blows into town for a championship bout and must find a replacement for the suddenly injured contender. Rocky asks the audience to believe that the champ reaches down past all the ranked boxers and all the up-and-coming kids to give this stale ham-and-egger a chance in an engagement on which millions are riding. It is not merely improbable in a time when even a legitimate challenger like Ken Norton, who is a movie star to boot, does badly on closed-circuit TV, it is preposterous. One really cannot deal with such...
...result, Diamond and Fiscal Services Director Gibson's representative, Thomas O'Brien, have not yet met to name the third or "neutral" member of the appeal board, raising the possibility that O'Brien--and eventually Harvard--will argue that Brown-Beasley's case has gone "stale." It seems at this point, with Harvard's public statement that it cannot block Diamond's membership on the panel, that Brown-Beasley and his representative should move on to more substantive disputes...
...give you an example. Last night at Dartmouth they had a bonfire. Last night at Cambridge they went to Joe's Pizza. And the worst thing was, the pepperonis were stale...
...grand for stale pepperonis. Six grand to be miserable. Six grand to let the Dartmouths have all the fun. Why, if I didn't go to Out of Town every day, I'd think that Chris Chambliss was a butterfly...