"Until that heel hobbled him, his play was like a string of perfect sentences," he writes.
Ted Poe, a former district judge from Texas, made his reputation by issuing a string of embarrassing sentences.
Mr. Wasendorf's penalty is the latest in a string of stiff sentences handed down by judges for financial crimes.
One of the people Ms Sims checks in on is a long-time rough sleeper with a history of violence, a drug habit to feed and a string of prison sentences.
To the consternation of tabloid editors everywhere, a judge on Thursday ended Lindsay Lohan's long-running probation for a 2007 drunk driving case after a string of violations, jail sentences and rehab stints, wire services reported.
It would be naive to imagine that a string of tortuously constructed sentences issued by an organization whose own "peacekeepers" have been implicated in the rapes of girls and women in Sierra Leone, Congo, Ivory Coast, Haiti, Cambodia, and Bosnia, among other places, would reverse or forestall a practice that dates back to the Mongols, and likely before them.
Problems to avoid in using quotes include dull, obvious quotes and quotes that echo a previous statement; quotes used as leads; a string of quotes run in sentence after sentence; curse words in quotes; and distortion of quotes.
A man charged with a string of sexual assaults was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences for raping an 11-year-old girl three years ago.
But a spokesman for the FSA said: "The FSA has significantly strengthened its enforcement team in recent years - and a string of tough actions including jail sentences for insider dealers and large fines show the impact of our work.
As it files past, this 13-minute string of sentences evocatively conjures up the maze-like structure of race and class distinctions that is post-apartheid South Africa -- and it does so entirely in terms of vivid childhood memories, told with a child's matter-of-fact brevity.
