Word: toughness
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...politics of early release are delicate. The prison boom of the past 25 years benefited a great many politicians who could claim to be tough on crime. One can easily imagine the political ads that will air in the next cycle in attempts to defeat elected officials who vote not only to set prisoners free but also to spend more on social services for them...
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...ranked No. 36 nationally. After a long battle, Cao emerged with a 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 victory. “I really don’t know how to talk about my matches,” Cao said. “[The matches against ranked opponents] were tough matches obviously. I’m glad I came away with the win and that’s all that matters.” In Flight B, junior captain Samantha Rosekrans won her first match but fell in the quarterfinals and in the consolation draw. Rosekrans will lead a young...
...Part detective novel, part scientific investigation, and part journalistic exposé with a dark, destructive love story at its center.” It’s a tough marketing description for even the finest author to live up to. Jorge Volpi’s “Season of Ash,” translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam, does indeed offer a unique scientific analysis of human behavior and a character list ample enough to facilitate countless love stories. But while Volpi’s literary conceit is ambitious enough, and his ideas occasionally intriguing, his hackneyed...
Flyby agrees: it’s tough to ask students to take the condition seriously when those afflicted are called “drunkorexics...