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What hard-pressed executive would not covet the boons conferred on the depressed and integrity-ridden Will after he's nipped on the wrist by a rough beast slouching along a Vermont roadway? All his senses are suddenly sharpened: he can smell liquor on a colleague's breath at a dozen paces, overhear plotting phone calls far down the corridor, even -- literally -- sniff out his wife's affair with his chief rival (James Spader). He becomes, you might say, an animal in bed. And he, naturally, develops a taste for the jugular in matters of business...
...street crime for far more lucrative suite crime, which requires brains, training and access to important decisions from which blacks have long been excluded. Someday a black financier will have the power to commit a massive fraud that shakes stock markets around the world, get a slap on the wrist from the courts and walk away with millions. Blacks will have secured a new civil right: the equal opportunity to steal big-time, just like the white guys...
...censure of Vice President Joshua D. Liston '95 was declared void due to a technicality. After Liston had already admitted breaking council bylaws by not enforcing the attendance policy during the semester, the censure attempt was a half-hearted slap-on-the-wrist after the motion to expel him from his position failed only two weeks before. Liston's flagrantly illegitimate behavior has thus been validated by the council's own incompetence...
Students at the party, however, said that statetroopers were aggressive with the students andthat the officers may have antagonized them byrepeatedly walking through the party to checkstudent's color-coded wrist-band...
...gets just a slap-on-the-wrist one-game suspension and a fine which is less than he makes for doing a commercial...