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Monday, November 07, 2005

A Taste of Prison

Robert Schrieffer, professor, Nobelist, speedster, will indeed get the "taste of prison" the judge who oversaw his manslaughter trial last year wanted for him.

At first it looked as though Schrieffer -- who killed a man and injured a bunch of other people when, driving on a license already suspended because of years of speeding tickets, he rammed his sports car at one hundred miles an hour into a van --might get off with a mere eight months in the county detention center. But the details of his depravity so outraged the judge that he found a way to put him in a real cell.