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Northeastern should provide less stiff competition...
...until they die, if only because prison is so expensive--upwards of $15,800 annually for each prisoner, more than it costs to send a student to Yale. The American Civil Liberties Union argues that greater certainty of some kind of punishment is a better deterrent to crime than stiff sentences...
...unusual move, it referred the case to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution. Last week U.S. Attorney Edward Dennis Jr. announced that a federal grand jury in Philadelphia had returned an indictment against G.E. for allegedly defrauding the Air Force of more than $800,000. In a swift and stiff follow-up punch, the Pentagon declared that it was temporarily barring G.E. from any new military contracts. As if that were not enough, the Pentagon disclosed that it was taking another "exceptional action" against the company, demanding that it voluntarily return what the Defense Department considers excess profits collected...
...chronologies, one of the author's public career and honors, the other of his failures and the early deaths of many of his family and close friends. By the adroit use of such detail, Barnes builds a warmer personality for the novelist than his glacial public image. Flaubert's stiff shyness and pride, his solitary stance in life and self-described bearishness become signs of human vulnerability rather than the armor of an artist against the distractions of the world...
Before the squad starts thinking about the NCAAS, it's got some stiff competition to overcome...