Word: bags
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...Conservative Party annual conference. But some of his fellow Tories weren't listening to Major's pitch for family values. Only last week, Conservative M.P. Stephen Milligan was found dead in his apartment. He was wearing women's stockings and a garter belt and had a plastic bag over his head and an orange in his mouth. (Scotland Yard believes Milligan's death may have been due to self-strangulation while indulging in a solitary sexual practice.) Some other recent Tory peccadilloes...
Murphy improved just enough to be released. Divorced, broke and sick, he was arrested with a bag of methamphetamine in his home in 1991. He says he was merely keeping it for a friend, though in anticipation of being paid for doing...
...Olympics, she will have a few more tricks in her bag. Working with a sports psychologist, she learned that she built up excess nervous energy before a performance. Now she will run up and down the corridor to get some release. She also discovered the relaxing value of comedy tapes. Her favorites are telephone scams by a couple of New York City radio disk jockeys. Says Kerrigan: "They just call up people and harass them. It lightens up the whole atmosphere...
...What this does not mean is that we want RUS to be an open bag," Lewis said. "We want RUS to be active...
...wardens, guards, not to mention inmates -- that if prisons only punish, and offer no inducements or opportunities for rehabilitation, they simply produce tougher criminals. When prisoners have no constructive way to spend their time, they often fill the hours building a reservoir of resentment, not to mention a grab bag of criminal tricks, that -- count on it -- they will take back to the streets. "All we do," says Dr. John May, one of the 10 doctors who service the 9,000 inmates at Chicago's Cook County Jail, "is produce someone meaner and angrier and more disillusioned with himself...