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...mother's home and moving in with them; Irving's father died after a long illness; Irving was repeatedly hospitalized for mysterious blackouts. The couple lost one pregnancy to miscarriage; a second pregnancy ended in stillbirth the same week Phyllis' mother died of esophageal cancer; Phyllis was forced to commit her father to a mental hospital...
...years, America's persistently falling crime rates have baffled the nation's policy wonks. The head-scratching can stop, because it's all been explained by a revelation Thursday from the Justice Department: There's no one left to commit crimes - everyone has been stuffed into prison. In part, of course, we jest; the figures, though, are serious. According to the DOJ's calculations, the U.S. adult prison population reached record levels in 1999; jails housed 1.86 million people last year, or one of every 147 citizens. That makes America, which in 1985 had less than 800,000 people behind...
...when that pledge is broken by anxious parents or school officials. Supporters of the notification process want the information to be made as widely available as possible - advocating, for instance, its posting on the Internet. They also point out that the psychosexual impulses that lead people to commit sex offenses against children are very difficult to cure or suppress, leading to a high rate of repeat offenses. The defenders argue that by serving their sentences the offenders have, in effect, paid their debt to society. They also make the case that wide distribution of personal information such as pictures...
...Kevin Angle '03 surpasses himself in the role of Rose's love interest, Sir Rutheven Murgatroyd, an inheritor of the Murgatroyd family curse, which causes the holder of the title of Baronet to perform one evil deed each day until he will invariably refuse to commit the crime and then die, in agony, at the hands of his ancestors. Sir Rutheven has faked his own death and has disguised himself as the sweet, disarming young farmer Robin Oakapple, who has such low self-esteem that he cannot confess his love to Rose without the help of his long-lost foster...
...similar legal work, the system tends not to select those lawyers with the necessary experience and qualifications to try a complex criminal case, but those who are willing to work cheap. A state that is willing to pay any price to recruit talented and knowledgeable prosecutors but refuses to commit resources towards the defense does not have a justice system worthy of the name. The bill would provide strong incentives to states to create and maintain a peer-reviewed list of qualified capital defense attorneys, who would be paid at reasonable rates...