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...difference between this and my last prison, where I was mixed in with violent criminals, is heaven and hell," says Dana Chaison, 51, a convicted drug offender and Roman Catholic. "It's kind of hard to focus on your rehab when you're always watching your back." Bossard Shawn, 32, says he saw his Muslim chaplain so infrequently at his former prison that he felt adrift. Now, under the regular tutelage of local imam Zaid Malik, "I have far more knowledge of Islam and myself," says Shawn. "It's going to make a great amount of difference when I leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When God Is The Warden | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...James H. Bossard and Eleanor S. Boll of the University of Pennsylvania addressed the tradition of debutante balls in their study entitled “Social Forces.” They got to the heart of the matter quickly, writing, “[Parents] present the product of their careful rearing to their approved friends with the unspoken sentiment: ‘This is my daughter, now prepared to enter into, and take her part in, our own social set. She is up for your inspection, and may she be acceptable...

Author: By Mollie H. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Ball | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

...whom he presented as the fruits of his recruiting. They became double agents for the CIA. A year after signing on with the FBI, Polyakov was posted back to Moscow, where he had access to GRU penetrations of Western intelligence. Before long he began serving up moles, including Frank Bossard, a guided-missile researcher in the British aviation ministry and U.S. Army Sergeant Jack Dunlap, a courier at the National Security Agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of The Perfect Spy | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

Each case has brought another examination of security procedures, and two trials last week at the Old Bailey were no exception. In one, Aviation Ministry Engineer Frank Bossard, 52, was sentenced to 21 years for photographing and selling, since 1961, heaps of missile data to the Soviets for $14,000. In another case, a Defense Ministry clerk. Sergeant Percy Allen, 33, got ten years for peddling data on Israeli arms to Iraq and Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Under the Table | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...difficulty had been an overzealous concern with spies' legal rights, which prevented government officials from investigating suspected leaks until the courts rendered a verdict. The government's fear was that an announcement of an investigation might bias prospective jurors or witnesses. Nonetheless, three hours after Bossard's conviction, Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced in Commons that in the future, government employees will be grilled as soon as a lapse is discovered, though results will be kept private until after the trial. "It is not enough, once the horse has bolted, to have a high-level inquiry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Under the Table | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

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