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...happen-not, at least, during the war. In retrospect, that is remarkable. In 1776 there were no municipal police forces and almost no prisons. If a person was the victim of a crime, he would have to find and even apprehend the offender himself. There were sheriffs who could and did make arrests, but only on the basis of warrants issued by courts; there was no provision for arrest on "probable cause," and if a sheriff acted as if there were, he was liable to be sued. Almost everybody was entitled to a trial by jury, but the jury, unlike...
...University of Massachusetts Historian Pauline Maier has written: "The Boston mob was so domesticated that it refused to riot on Saturday and Sunday nights, which were considered holy by New Englanders." Indeed, often the "mob" served quite legal ends, as when the hue and cry was set up to apprehend a thief, or when measures had to be taken to deal with public health problems. Small wonder, then, that a member of a mob was rarely convicted for his riotous actions. In the 20th century we have become accustomed to seeing theft and looting accompany mob action, but surprisingly that...
...loosely chronological narrative-a series of signed excerpts contributed by each family member-recounts the Schecters' efforts to apprehend the peculiarities of Soviet society. For Correspondent Schecter, working in Moscow meant learning how to make the most of his mamka (KGB-planted Russian journalists assigned to "assist" foreign newsmen) while cultivating nonofficial sources and picking up dissident tracts at park-bench meetings. The children had to adjust to the strict and dogmatic school system: Second-Grader Kate, for example, was taught that the light bulb and locomotive had been invented by Russians. They also found themselves-and their chewing...
James O. Newpher, special agent in charge of the Boston Field Office of the FBI, said the FBI is still seeking the arrests of two additional persons in the theft but he said he hopes "we will apprehend the other two within the next 24 hours...
...University Hall have spindly metal bannisters, but a Robinson slide is thrilling, if scary. Widener Library has prepubescent brass rails, but if you slide on these, you will truly be shaking the golden rule: Rumpled professors may scurry to their files, but the officious bookchecker is sure to apprehend you. By all means slide, though, and put this University on its ear, even if you end up on your...