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Without objection, so entered. But the matter before the court is not the literary standing of the estimable Higgins. It is a spreading gray ooze of lesser lawyer novels with indistinguishable titles, written perhaps for love, perhaps for glory, but probably to capitalize on the dumbfounding popularity of lawyer novels by Scott Turow (The Burden of Proof, Presumed Innocent) and John Grisham (The Firm, The Pelican Brief...
...years) to stay in Pittsburgh. Baseball owners cried poverty -- and demanded to reopen their contract with the players' union -- but, like a randy widow, couldn't help throwing money at those big, handsome athletes. Even the barons of the N.F.L. can no longer look smugly upon the agitation of lesser moguls; last week they acceded to the players' suit for free agency. Serves 'em right: let the bidding frenzy spread like...
Athletes often receive other, lesser perks as well. Easy jobs are often assigned out of the athletics department's Operations Office informally, for example. Of course, many students in many different areas of the University come across easy jobs and other perks through their professors or extracurriculars. All of these jobs should be more open to all students; those not advertised in the Student Employment Office should...
...play might have been considerably stronger if Aron had chosen to focus more on this theme, instead of straying onto countless lesser sub-plots: here, every character has his or her tale to tell, and they do not always gel into a cohesive whole...
...Hong Kong or singing karaoke in Japan, we were all caught crying and laughing with our new friends on the ship and the countries we visited. We learned to greet people in many different languages and we learned the responsibility we, as citizens of developed countries, have to lesser developed countries...