Word: crime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stalkers manages to get into her apartment and laughs in Mary's face when she tells him that she has a court order of protection stipulating that he must stay at least 400 hundred feet away from her. Stalking is not something to laugh at; it is a serious crime against women which is often overlooked until it is too late. And as Mary's stalker has shown, orders of protection are often useless against violently estranged boyfriends, lovers and husbands. The fact that Mary's stalkers are just a bunch of idiots, each more pathetic than the other, ends...
...sympathy for a few of the offenders whose lurid stories I read on the AP wire. Juvenile delinquents are one thing. Reading the story of the teenagers who killed an unpopular classmate with a noose during a night of torture, I wondered what other factors had contributed to this crime committed by such young kids...
...they? I refuse to believe everyone has the potential to become a monster, but the line between real life and crime is so thin as to be indistinguishable to some. Only in the ability to choose right over wrong are we truly human...
...down his campaign against Kosovo's Albanian majority -- without mounting a full-scale offensive, the Serbs have systematically recaptured territory and driven tens of thousands of civilians from their homes. The mounting tide of refugees has, however, raised pressure on Western governments to respond forcefully, and evidence of a crime against humanity could leave them little choice...
LONDON: Britain's bid to persuade France to hand over a loose-lipped former MI5 spy may flounder on a simple legal point -- the "crime" of which David Shayler is accused is not illegal in France. When Shayler threatened to use the Web to expose the inner workings of Britain's spy agency, London sought extradition in order to try Shayler under its draconian Official Secrets Act, which gags former government employees. Shayler was arrested in France over the weekend, and the British government now has 40 days to convince a French court to carry out the extradition...