Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...named James would have seemed as predictable as it was tragic. The Austin restaurant worker had developed the telltale red-and-purple lesions and had suffered night sweats, diarrhea and weight loss. Then came the inevitable coda; his doctor informed him that he had AIDS. In fact, his T-cell count was down from a normal range of 800 to 1,200 to a depressing...
Today Wallace, 28, sits in a jail cell in Charlotte, North Carolina, charged with the worst killing spree in the area's history. According to police, Wallace murdered at least 10 women over the past two years in North Carolina. His last alleged victim was a 35-year-old supermarket clerk who was found strangled in her apartment two weeks ago. Her tragically apt name: Debra Ann Slaughter...
...boiler room and marked off by thick prison bars, school officials have crafted a fate worse than algebra class. Teachers at the school, part of the Cincinnati, Ohio, public school district, simply call it "the dungeon." Students have more descriptive -- if unprintable -- names for the small windowless cell. Though the prison bars are just painted on the cinder-block entrance, the punishment is real. Delinquent students must remain in the room -- absolutely quiet -- all day, even eating at their desks. "It's so hot and so boring," moans a seventh grader named Lance, 12, serving day two of a three...
...been attacked for needlessly distorting the facts of the case. The film, for instance, shows the Maguire Seven on trial with the Guildford Four, though the cases were tried separately. In some of its most affecting scenes, it shows Conlon, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, sharing a jail cell with his father, though the two were often not even in the same prison. A grand and heroic part is carved for actress Emma Thompson, playing Conlon's solicitor, Gareth Peirce, but in reality Peirce was a minor figure and another attorney, Alastair Logan, deserves most of the credit for freeing...
...Walsh, who could finish his term on the city council in a federal jail cell, said rent control amounts to "Subsidizing the rich" because many wealthy people live in rent-controlled housing...