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Allow me to set up the following hypothetical situation: I am stealing thousands of dollars. What should happen to me? Some would contend that I should be incarcerated, but I’m not so sure. I mean, we have always punished people who steal, but that may not be the optimal course of action. To settle this question once and for all, I decided to apply standard incarceration calculus to this situation. According to standard incarceration calculus, if something is hard to do, like open-heart surgery, the practitioner should be paid. On the other hand, if something...
Wanting to ensure that the easy success of my first caper was not a fluke, I decided to try and steal something else. This time, with a gun. Unfortunately, there is some sort of waiting period for purchasing a handgun. After explaining the pressures of my column deadline to Winthrop Vanderbilt, the proprietor of the Cambridge Shooting Shoppe, he suggested that I consider using illegal fireworks instead of guns. It wasn’t ideal, but I bought $700 worth...
After a layup by junior guard Brady Merchant gave Harvard a 36-31 edge with 14:41 left to play, Bechtold took over. Three three-pointers, a layup and one steal later, Bechtold had sparked a 14-6 Princeton run that erased Harvard’s lead and placed the momentum firmly in Princeton’s favor...
Alanis Morissette loves the vocabulary of pop psychology. Or, to steal a phrase from You Owe Me Nothing in Return, a track on her upcoming album, Under Rug Swept (Maverick), she gives it "countless amounts of outright acceptance...
...tracing a phone number on a fraudulent application for credit that had been made in his name. And he scored, in part by paying $25 to an online data broker--an information mercenary who may not care whether you're trying to track down a long-lost cousin or steal her identity. Johnson went so far as taking the subway to the suspect's address to match his name to an apartment number, noting there were flower boxes in his windows. "I felt like Angela Lansbury," he says...