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More than 2 million women--some 600,000 of them juveniles--commit a violent offense each year, and some three-quarters of their victims are women. Criminal-justice advocates say up to 85% of women convicted of violent crimes are victims themselves of physical and sexual abuse; 43% are drug addicts or alcoholics; 40% suffer from parental absence or neglect; and perhaps 1 in 10 has a mental-health problem...
...Crimson could not break through again and Penn did not commit any more penalties. Harvard’s last good scoring chance—on Kocis’ attempt with just seconds left to play—was far too little, too late, as Kelly made a nice stop...
...Penalty The Justice Department said it would seek the death penalty for Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person to be charged in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks. Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent, is accused of conspiring with Osama bin Laden, the hijackers and others to commit attacks in the U.S. Investigators believe he intended to take part in the Sept. 11 hijackings, though he was in jail at the time. French officials said they would refuse to provide evidence against Moussaoui on four of the six charges that carry the death penalty. The trial is scheduled to begin...
...Anthony Zinni's mediation mission, even though the Bush administration insists its envoy will remain on the job. Sharon was never going to take seriously Arafat's eleventh-hour cease-fire plea as Israel began initiating its response to the Passover bombing. The Palestinian leader has been unwilling to commit to Zinni's cease-fire plan, and his reluctance to take a firm, principled stand against attacks on Israelis may be partly a reflection of the fact that polls routinely find that upwards of 80 percent of Palestinians support acts of violence as a way of ending Israel's occupation...
...defend itself - and Oslo was supposed to negotiate turning most of the West Bank and Gaza into a Palestinian state. But many of Israel's leading politicians and generals fear that holding onto those territories may represent an even greater threat to Israel's security. Sharon looks set to commit tens of thousands of troops to "pacify" the 3 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and Gaza, and who are overwhelmingly supportive of guerrilla warfare and terrorism as means to end the occupation. If any outside army were looking to attack Israel right now, it would certainly...