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...without a trial. The government urged leniency--the cops had confessed to more crimes than anyone suspected, and implicated more than 50 fellow officers in the process--but the judge was unsympathetic. "You've squashed the Bill of Rights in the mud," he said before sending the men to stiff prison terms...
...soldiered through more standards and new tunes, pausing only once to allow the leader to introduce his band. In fact, Dylan rarely even altered his facial expression, basically maintaining a deadpan scowl for the duration of the performance. Even his cues to the band were minimal, with only a stiff nod to the drummer signifying the end of a tune...
...within themselves, rather than against their ostensibly political targets. Opposite in address, yet equally disappointing, most of the photographs are too obvious or formally preoccupied. However, two softly-colored photographs by Danielle J. King '00 prove notable exceptions. The archetypal house in one of her square photographs appears as stiff and plastic as the child's play house in another. In the tradition of Dan Graham and Thomas Struth, King's domestic subjects are so patently legible and ordinary they become somehow mysterious or surreal...
...country provide shoppers soft chairs and couches and ample space to sprawl on the carpet, bridging the gap between bookstore and living room-a fact the Coop seemingly ignored in the redesign. The new store is cool and spatially tight, and is dotted not with couches but with the stiff, wooden Harvard chairs found in some classrooms and dorm rooms, hardly inviting us to sit and stay awhile...
JOHN SWEENEY This working man's no stiff. AFL-CIO honcho pulls fast one to get Congress to pull fast-track bill...