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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Henshaw, 43, is charged with 12 felony counts ranging from maintaining a public nuisance to soliciting women to commit oral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Student, Insurance Agent Arrested in Ongoing Providence Prostitution Probe | 4/12/1986 | See Source »

Following the NRA's logic, an ideal gun law allows sportsmen, hunters, and honest citizens attempting to defend themselves easy access to guns. This protects the rights of folks like you and me. Criminals, on the other hand, should be punished heartily for any abuses they commit with handguns...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: In Whose Interest? | 4/5/1986 | See Source »

...saying "No free speech for murderers." A person does not have the right, through public speech, to incite domestic murder (capital punishment excepted). The free speech of a KKK leader can be legally and morally denied, if through a public address he hopes to persuade fellow bigots to commit racially-motivated homocide...

Author: By Robert A. Katz, | Title: Not So Simple | 4/5/1986 | See Source »

...world. Their routine may not have been much, just a modest impression of a unique and immortal creation. But in Pippo and Amelia's day, performers prospered because they were willing to do the hard work of polishing an artful act, not because they had the momentary nerve to commit an outrageous one. Besides, after they have endured the indifference of the youthful production staff and the chaos of rehearsal and performance (there is a power failure just as they begin their act, and a leg cramp causes Pippo to fall in the middle of it), we see that, modest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Remembering the Lost Steps Ginger & Fred | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...another vet, Dean killed himself, Hull and her three children. "We the veterans, widows and children of veterans are a forgotten group," said a suicide note. Coincidentally, a study just published by the New England Journal of Medicine reports that Viet Nam-era veterans are 86% more likely to commit suicide than nonveterans and 53% more likely to die in car crashes. "The casualties of forced military service," write the authors, "may not be limited to those that are counted on the battlefield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Veterans: More Victims of Viet Nam | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

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