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...attempt to make prison sentences more uniform ((LAW, April 27)), that a 10% increase in the prison population over the next decade would be intolerable. But the actual increase could be vastly greater. If just one piece of legislation like last year's drug bill, which calls for stiffer sentencing, is factored in, the increase will be much larger. We simply cannot lock everybody up. Something has got to give. Congress must choose: either allocate many billions of dollars for new prisons, or use imprisonment only where necessary and make greater use of such alternatives as fines, restitution, supervised home...
Harvard knocked off RPI, 5-2, and Vermont, 7-1, on the slick ice of Bright Center in early January. But the Crimson is likely to get a stiffer challenge when it faces these teams on their home turf...
...victim of the country's ruthless cocaine kings, who annually murder dozens % of judges, police and journalists who attempt to expose their activities. After the shooting, an angry President Virgilio Barco signed back into law a U.S.-Colombia extradition treaty that had been invalidated by a technicality, and decreed stiffer penalties for drug violations. Barco, who attended Cano's funeral, denounced the drug lords as men "with no God" who "stop at nothing...
...violation remain in the penalty box for the duration of his penalty, even if the other team scores a power-play goal in the meantime. He can be substituted for if the other team scores, but the player himself cannot return to the ice. It is hoped this stiffer penalty will discourage needless aggression...
...terminal isn't the only place in town with a laserwriter. Several stores in Harvard Square, including Kinko's, will happily print Mac or IBM compatible disk on a laser printer. The bill, however, will be much stiffer...