Word: celling
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...Fleiss sympathizers most is the severity of the penalty, which they say dramatizes the problems of mandatory sentencing. "It reflects the worst sense of priorities of our criminal-justice system," says Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, whom Fleiss has asked to handle her appeal. "The idea that a jail cell will be taken up by Heidi Fleiss is outrageous...
Stephen L. Womack was arrested and arraigned this week on charges that he allegedly destroyed millions of dollars worth of books. He is sitting in a Cambridge jail cell today even as police continue their investigation into the 42-year-old Arlington resident's background and his possible motive for the crime...
Frisch theorizes that women with high concentrations of estrogen must disperse the hormone, which may increase the likelihood of errors in cell division, leading to cancer...
Allen found humor useful in prison. He made the meanest guards laugh by putting pictures of Richard Nixon in the peephole of his cell when they made their rounds. Later he staged comedy shows for the other inmates. Once, while riding a bus to another prison, he managed to slip out of his handcuffs. The only thing he could think to do was bum a cigarette off the old bank robber sitting in front of him. "I reached into his shirt pocket with the handcuff on one hand, and then tapped him on his other shoulder to get a match...
...classic, archetypally heroic story involving great suffering and great achievement," says Stengel. "It shows the value of sticking to one's beliefs." Stengel and the President embarked on 18 months of writing and editing in January 1993, starting with a manuscript Mandela had begun years earlier in his prison cell. They set to work each day at 6:45 a.m., usually meeting at Mandela's African National Congress office in downtown Johannesburg or his suburban home. On his own, Stengel tracked down and interviewed more than 50 of Mandela's friends, colleagues and family members, including the President's former...