Word: wrists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago at the Columbia football game, a Harvard alumnus sat nearby the 50-yard line squinting intently into a pair of high-powered binoculars. Next to him a small child tugged at his wrist, asking in an increasingly whiny voice to be taken to the bathroom. The alum paid no attention, keeping his eyes glued to his Zeiss lcons, Finally he looked up and spoke, not to the child, but to a middle-aged man on his right. "Damn if those cheerleaders aren't the best part of Ivy football...
...Crimson Co-Captain Kale Martin spotted her wide-open teammate, and with a flick of her wrist. Martin scooted the ball out of the crowd, across the crease, and onto the stick of the waiting Riordan. Riordan then flipped the ball past goalie. Tory Parrot for the game's only score...
...veteran of Ohio prisons, I read your special section with interest and skepticism. Prisons are for punishment: to give society the retribution it is due. But punishment should be handed out fairly. When an inmate sees police, judges and politicians, the same people who draft and enforce laws, receiving wrist slaps for conduct that landed him in the slammer for years, the lesson of sure and swift punishment is lost...
...expectations; that, he says, will help. Yet his resolution continues to be undermined by his temper. Even now he is on disciplinary report for raising a hand to a guard. He demonstrates the gesture as if to denote its casual innocence, but in fact a flick of his wrist is menacing. "I will always be in prison," he says after a while. "It was something stamped on my soul...
...improved "American" has produced only headaches. Local police are often loath to arrest growers, especially when communities are dependent on pot income. Some even tip off planters to impending law-enforcement raids. In many states, the penalties meted out for growing grass often amount to little more than a wrist slap anyway. Even with stiffer sentencing, enforcement would remain difficult. Growers have become adept at hiding pot patches from airborne police. One farmer in Kentucky is growing plants on flatbeds that he can wheel into the barn at the first buzz of a light plane. Other growers protect their crops...