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...Watergate break-in, justice is still a long way off. Giving three of the most powerful men in the Nixon administration no fines, and only 30 months in jail--less if they exemplify "good behavior"--constitutes, in comparison to their crimes, little more than a slap on the wrist...
...second Harvard goal was a gift Dave Gauthier pressured a N.U. defenseman in the corner into making an errant pass that landed on the stick of Randy Roth, who was alone 15 feet in front of the N.U. net. Roth slid a wrist shot for the tally at 14:41 of the first...
...Crimson added two goals in the second period. Defenseman Eddie Rossi got his first goal of the season at 9 15 on a wrist shot from 25 feet out through a screen of players...
...nearly everything in art since the Fauves had been rubbish at best, and at worst the fruit (so to speak) of a homosexual conspiracy to rob the U.S. of its primal manly culture. The American museum, he grumbled, was "a graveyard run by a pretty boy with a curving wrist and a swing in his gait." Modern art was unintelligible to the people. Yet, in the end, one wonders if the tribunal to which Benton submitted his work and attitudes was not some jury of average, sensual Midwesterners but rather the ghost of his father, a stumping, swilling, iron-throated...
...contest to a misdemeanor charge. He had upped their class ranking, said Woolley, simply to make them eligible for athletic scholarships under N.C.A.A. rules. The possible maximum sentence was $1,000 and a year in jail. Woolley was fined all of $25. District Attorney Ron Wilson, who recommended the wrist-slap approach, explained, "I can't think of a more laudable reason to do wrong than to try to help a young kid." Besides, said the D.A., "what more can we do to the man than has already been done?" What has been done is to move Woolley from...