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...ride, the old man pays 300 rubles, worth about 50 cents at the latest exchange rate but a stiff 10% of the average pensioner's monthly income. Ordinarily, Artyom would have refused anything less than 600. "Sometimes I give them a break," he concedes...
Coming off of its recent 4-2 Bean-pot Championship victory over Boston University, the Harvard men's hockey team must knuckle down for two games this weekend in Bright Hockey Center against some pretty stiff ECAC competition...
Nevertheless, the immigration laws impose stiff penalties on families that hire undocumented workers. Under the 1986 statutes, employers and foreign workers must sign a declaration that the employees have proper working papers. The punishment for knowingly hiring illegal aliens can include fines and six months in prison...
Royal Miller, playing her lapdog/playboy husband Hector, is as stiff and starched as his shirt. The only time we can understand why squads of women supposedly fall in love with him occurs in a moment when he is leaping about alone on stage and snatches up an imaginary rapier in solitary swordplay, levelling it against a non-existent...
Maybe I've betrayed my ethnicity. Once I tell you that a barong is a stiff cotton shirt that Filipino men wear on formal occasions, you know about as much as I do about the culture of my father's birthplace. Every now and I happen upon that never-worn garment or a few photographs of relatives I barely know, but the paucity of my celebrations suggests that I deserve no prize for my embrace of my Asian-American heritage...