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Also, the paper never mentions that the judge in this case, who suggested the failure to produce smacked of official deceit, had previously harshly ruled against the administration in the matter of whether or not closed meetings of the Hillary-led health care task force were illegal, levying a $300,000 fine against the government.
Amid all the hand-wringing (especially on the sports pages) about whether Latrell Sprewell has been dealt with too harshly comes the voice of reason in the form of a letter to the NYT , which points out that if Sprewell had a real job, he'd be looking at permanent unemployment and criminal prosecution.
Behavior in the Human Male , in its "impulse toward acceptance and liberation, the broad and generous desire for others not to be harshly judged."
Indeed, the paper reports that the judge "harshly chastised" the Secret Service for continuing to fight Kenneth Starr on this point.
Perhaps, I thought, the army yielded power harshly while wielding a no-iron velvet fist?