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Could be. Last week the Governor was himself convicted in a Phoenix federal court of seven counts of fraud. A jury found him guilty of repeatedly lying on loan applications to shore up his wobbly real estate empire. Under stringent federal sentencing guidelines--of the sort he in the past would have heartily endorsed--Symington will almost certainly do time...
...using several antibiotics simultaneously, the doctors in Michigan brought their patient's infection under control. Even so, health officials suspect that vancomycin-resistant staph will soon appear in other U.S. hospitals as well. Calling for stringent antiseptic procedures, they urged doctors to report cases of vancomycin-resistant staph promptly...
...money contributions in federal races to $5,000. It sounds loony, but Gingrich is right when he says there isn't enough money in campaigns. The question is what kind of money. I propose raising the limit from $1,000 to $5,000 a person each election. A more stringent cap was necessary in 1974, when the limit was set, given the slow reporting process of the day. New technology allows for freer, faster information exchange and would justify easing up on the caps, provided that disclosure was immediate. The $1,000 cap has not been adjusted for inflation...
...Wineapple warns Harvard language professors not to act too rashly in making the language requirement more stringent. "I'm not convinced more is better all the time," she says...
Despite more stringent requirements elsewhere, Harvard language professors say they are not convinced that strengthening the language requirement here is the proper way to place the College on par with other Ivies...