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...grab more than $600 million in property from drug traffickers. Said Attorney General Dick Thornburgh: "This is a notable victory in the war on drugs." The rulings were denounced, however, by defense attorneys who fear that the fate of both their livelihood and their clients may depend on the whim of law-enforcement officials. "No one who has law school loans, a mortgage to pay and kids to feed can afford to practice this kind of law anymore," said Scott Wallace of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Noted University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar: "The decisions will...
...half kidding. "The idea that the postcard-writing public should pay as well as write cards is not an easy one for preservationists to swallow," Graff concedes. But "if there was more of a willingness to pay for maintaining the environment, we wouldn't have to rely on bureaucratic whim." It is evident that Willey and Graff believe in their neo-capitalist approach. The bottom line then naturally presents itself: Gentlemen, what do we get for our money...
...them that there are big opportunities up north. What's more, says one, "I want to see that country before the bankers and lawyers all get it." But if the truth be told, the long trek -- initiated by an almost chance remark, beset by terrible hardships -- seems a futile whim...
Sudduth yesterday recalled coming into Aikenand finding the lab cluttered with puzzles thecomputer had generated. "He sat down and did it ona whim," Sudduth said...
Harvard students who didn't catch the Krokodiloes in Moscow or weren't quick enough in snapping up the $100 tickets to the Carnegie Hall concert will be able to see them perform with the Whiffenpoofs, the Radcliffe Pitches and the Yale Whim-N-Rhythm at Sanders Theatre after the Yale Game on November 19. "It'll be almost just like Carnegie Hall, but right here in Cambridge," Larsen promises...