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...Kauper's major accomplishments in office was to lobby successfully for stiffer penalties against price-fixers (threeyear prison sentences for individuals and $1 million corporate fines v. the previous one-year sentences and $50,000 fines). But after 19 months on the books, the new felony penalties have never been successfully invoked. More to Kauper's credit has been the rise in public awareness of antitrust and its relation to consumer wellbeing. Says one department official: "There is now a constituency for antitrust." Unfortunately for Kauper's successor, who may be Cornell University Law Professor Donald Baker...
After the Civil War young men flocked to the cities, and a porn business grew up to provide for this new market. Shocked by what he saw around him, a New York City clerk, Anthony Comstock, launched a national crusade. The results: stiffer laws, more prosecutions and a firm antiporn stance became the official American posture for nearly a century...
...erupted when rock-throwing crowds confronted baton-wielding Israeli soldiers. In the worst incident, soldiers fired warning shots into a crowd of demonstrators, wounding three young Arabs, one critically. Disagreement on how to handle the troubles split the Israeli leadership. Defense Minister Shimon Peres rejected the idea of any stiffer military measures, but Premier Yitzhak Rabin, in a private talk with Peres, declared: "I don't care if we have to put the entire army in the West Bank. I want quiet and order, and I want...
...taken long before or long after the event. "The formal of the bride," James Purcell of Bachrach Studios remarks, "is taken two weeks before the wedding with fake flowers. They photograph just as well." But the difference is visible; the formal portraits of more recent date are stiffer, more defensive. What Herbert Talerman calls the "gorgeous innocence of those early people," the proud hauteur of the bride who felt herself being immortalized by the camera, gives way to a nervous reserve as the formal portrait comes to be considered an artifact...
...dialogue" with the PC. In fact, their actions display an attitude closer to contempt. This past fall, for instance, several prominent members of the PC were denied entry into the U.S. under an archaic, seldom-used anti-Communist statute. This minor act of hostility was followed by an even stiffer slap in the face as neo-Fascist Giorgio Almirante, who is among the most reactionary politicians in Italy, paraded around Capitol Hill talking with Congressional leaders. Incidentally, the same law which barred Communists from entry into the U.S. supposedly also barred neo-fascists...