Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance, in Monaco, Prince Rainier reigns supreme and uncontested, his principality in the spotlight since he married the late Hollywood actress and Hitchcock muse, Grace Kelly. In this tiny Mediterranean country the size of New York City's Central Park, to be Monegasque is to lead a tax-and-crime-free life. Monegasques appreciate the fact that it is only the Monegasque princely family that keeps Monaco intact since once the family dies out, Monaco reverts to France...
...case goes to the jury this week. If they discount his dramatic account of self-defense and find him guilty of first-degree murder, Scher may be sent to prison for life. (His crime predates the state's reimposition of the death penalty.) "We fought this battle to get answers for a long time," says Mead, who sits with Lawrence Dillon during the trial. "This should have been done...
Clearly Baltimore faces expenses its suburban peers don't. With many of its schools in high-crime areas, the Baltimore system spends more than $5 million a year to field its own sworn--and armed--police force of 112 personnel, whose overtime pay alone would be enough to provide the starting salaries of two dozen full-time teachers. But the city must also pay the routine expenses faced by every school system, the largest of which is always salaries. Last year Baltimore spent $260.4 million to pay teachers and other staff members associated with regular instruction. It paid its special...
...already part of contemporary lore, a wrenching lore to break our hearts: the disappearance of a six-year old boy named Adam on July 27, 1981; the discovery of his severed head 16 days later in a Florida drainage ditch; the inability of the legal system to pin the crime on anyone. Two TV movies have been produced on the ordeal of Adam's parents, John Walsh and his wife Reve. But only recently did Walsh--the no-nonsense host of the Fox TV show America's Most Wanted--decide to write down his own story. From its searing prologue...
...Gattaca elite. Jerome's brilliant record qualifies him to lead a mission to one of Jupiter's moons, attracting the amorous interest of a fellow Gattacan, Irene (Uma Thurman). But the scheme hits some very rough waters when a mission director is murdered and an eyelash found near the crime scene is traced to the In-Valid Vincent Freeman...