Word: crimed
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SWITCHED AT BIRTH Investigators last month completed a probe into how newborns Callie Conley and Rebecca Chittum, below left and right, were swapped before leaving a Virginia hospital in 1995. The inquiry concluded that no crime was committed, yet the girls' ID bands somehow got misplaced. Hospital records show that at 6 a.m., Callie weighed more than Rebecca. After 8:30 a.m., the results were reversed. That no medical personnel noticed could mean legal trouble for the hospital. Now relatives are fighting over Rebecca, the biological daughter of Paula Johnson. Rebecca's two sets of grandparents were supposed to raise...
...embezzlement. A provocative new book, Pros and Cons: The Criminals Who Play in the N.F.L. (Warner Books; $24), depicts the Vikings as emblematic of a troubling trend in the league. Authors Jeff Benedict and Don Yaeger estimate that 1 in 5 players has been charged with a serious crime. "NFL teams are recruiting a new breed of criminal players the likes of which should disturb all NFL fans," the authors conclude. "Gone are the good old days of NFL recruits having rap sheets detailing merely drunken brawls and vandalism. In are the days of lethal violence, rape, armed robbery, home...
...Court and failing to acknowledge decisions from the World Court, denouncing it both as political and as a threat to national sovereignty. What if the Cambodians, for example, suddenly wanted to extradite Henry Kissinger, charging that his direction of bombings of civilian villages during the Vietnam War constituted a crime against humanity? Or if the engineers of the Iran-contra scandal were to face an international tribunal? Being committed to justice on paper is easy. Being prepared to subject yourself to it is another story...
...reason is plain old cynicism. Corruption and crime predate civilization, so why should we bother to stop them now? But another reason, running far deeper, is harder to admit. As the American hesitation to support international justice reveals, we do not like it when other people make us play by the rules. That's not because we feel comfortable dodging justice. It's because most of us are the kind of people who at bottom believe, despite the educated words we might use in debate, that the rules do not apply to us. It is the same attitude that allows...
...cherchez la femme hasn't worked, maybe following the money trail will. Maybe. The House Judiciary Committee decision to look into alleged fundraising irregularities in President Clinton's 1996 campaign is beginning to look like an impeachment inquiry in search of a crime."It appears there's no strategy or plan," says TIME Washington Correspondent Viveca Novak. "Everyone is looking for leadership from either incoming Speaker Bob Livingston or retiring Speaker Newt Gingrich, but so far they haven't stepped up to the plate...