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...Byrne Professor of Administrative Law Richard B. Stewart--once a top candidate to succeed former dean James Vorenberg '49--was probably more than satisfied with the not-so-lesser Justice Department position he accepted in August, as assistant attorney general for environmental affairs...
...economic penalties of the law can squeeze some defendants into plea- bargain agreements. Threatened by a RICO indictment and its sweeping forfeitures, the investment-banking firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert pleaded guilty to lesser charges last year and was hit with $650 million in penalties. Equally troubling to RICO targets is the law's ability to seize temporarily the assets of an accused before a trial begins -- even funds that would be used to pay a defense attorney. "Suddenly, there are a lot of born-again civil libertarians on Wall Street," says Michael Waldman, legislative director for Public Citizen Congress...
...Some of the classes are actually harder. It is difficult taking in the information in the lesser time," says Assistant Professor of Anthropology Terrence W. Deacon, who teaches a summer version of his popular Core course "Human Behavioral Biology...
...company with Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench and Tony Perez, turned the mid-'70s into a golden age. Their habit was to rag each other and everyone else at the batting cage, a merciless system that worked for them but ruined some humbler talents. If a wittier but lesser player tried to hold his own, they would trumpet their salaries in unison. It was another way of keeping score...
...were supposed to match, but a printing error produced millions of potential winners. Worse, hundreds of people thought they had won the grand prize: a $17,000 Dodge Caravan. In response to customer complaints, the food giant offered a compromise: $250 in cash for winners of the van, lesser amounts for the other winners, and a drawing for four times the original number of prizes...