Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...repeat it, a band that once cracked Casey's Top 40 will perform at a poorly-attended concert. Thousands of dollars that could have otherwise gone to student organizations will therefore end up in the hands of concert promoters sleazier than anyone who ever appeared on The Howard Stern Show. Before you know it, it will be time for another semester and another round of elections for executive board positions...
Tattle when you're a third-grader, and you'll get a stern parental reprimand. Tattle when you're an imprisoned junk-bond trader, and you'll get time off. That's the lesson celebrity financier and felon Michael Milken was taught by Federal Judge Kimba Wood, who reduced his prison sentence by one year for cooperatively testifying against former colleagues. For the past 17 months, Milken has been a model inmate at a minimum-security California prison. He can expect to return home to his family next March...
...case is being handled probono for the MCLUby Jonathan Shapiro, an attorney at the Bostonfirm of Stern, Shapiro, Rosenfeld and Weissberg
...year more aggressively than ever. The Supreme Court has just downgraded cross burnings to the level of bonfires and ruled that it's no crime to throw around verbal grenades like "nigger" and "kike." Where are the defenders of decorum and social stability when prime-time demagogues like Howard Stern deride African Americans as "spear chuckers...
Greg's first love was journalism, which he practiced as a writer for the Voice of America and a reporter for the Yale Daily News. But early on, he says, "I decided that I was much better with numbers than with words." A lightning number cruncher with a stern eye for fat in a budget, he honed his concentration and competitive skills as a 145-lb. wrestler at Phillips Academy. "It sure taught me to be tenacious," he says. Greg also discovered a passion for politics, working after college as a legislative assistant for Jonathan Bingham, a Democratic Congressman from...