Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is about the randomness of fate...All our aspirations are subject to weather and how do you keep your optimism and behave in a positive way...A lot of research went into this and I felt that a Marxist analysis of the origins of crime was old hat and wrong. But the more I knew about it, the more I saw it was the case. You have to be uniquely disadvantaged in representation in court and social background to do much time...
...presidential candidate is confronted with charges of misbehavior. Nervously he denies the allegations. A rival campaign leaks a videotape. The candidate confesses publicly to his crime: sneaking 14 items through a ten- item supermarket check-out line...
...poachers, distrusted by colleagues and local officials, she sensed that she was doomed but could not turn back. Sifting the circumstantial evidence surrounding her death, Mowat finally makes some convincing accusations of government-sponsored assassins. But he concedes, sadly, that Fossey's misanthropy made her an accessory to the crime. "I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people," she once admitted. "I can anticipate what a gorilla's going...
Pierson is one of the 300 or so children each year across the U.S. who murder one or both of their parents. Fathers are most often the victims. In recent years the frequency of such crimes, which account for just under 2% of all U.S. homicides, has remained stable, but the legal tactics used to defend the youthful killers have changed. More and more children are arguing that they acted in self-defense, admitting readily to the crime but pointing to years of abuse that left them fearful for their lives. As awareness of child abuse has increased, experts maintain...
...treats its other students. The reinstatement of Greg Williams to the football team would seem to suggest otherwise. Mark Brazaitis's piece on the Greg Williams case argued that the prohibition of Williams's involvement in the football program was a punishment that in no way fit the crime. The football program is, by some perverse reason, one of the most thoroughly publicized facets of the college; Brazaitis himself is partly responsible for a notably extensive coverage of the program in your paper, and they certainly don't put the Glee Club, any of the college's academic activities...