Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more troubling problem is that this phenomenal miscarriage of justice is hardly unprecedented. The case of the QRR Seven is just the latest example of the Ad Board meting out sentences way out of line with the severity of the crime. For example, just three months ago the Ad Board booted two Leverett House sophomores for a year after a series of intersuite practical jokes accidentally culminated in a cologne-soaked towel's briefly catching fire...
Matix and Platt appeared to have no ties to the drug trade, organized crime or extremist paramilitary groups. What, then, motivated them? What did they do with all their stolen money? Were they somehow involved in the deaths of their wives? As Agents Grogan and Dove were laid to rest last week, the FBI struggled to tie together the loose ends in the twisted trail of the lawmen's killers...
...young men, an American and a Latin American, have been jailed by the police of an unnamed country's rightist dictatorship. The crime: distribution of subversive leaflets. In their cell, they converse clumsily, united less by ideology than by a rapturous and surprisingly sophisticated passion for literature. Yet at every turn they misunderstand each other, responding to received images from each other's popular culture rather than to the actual person across the room. The American is a wandering would-be writer. He cheerily acknowledges that he knows no Spanish and thus has not even read the flyers they handed...
...Behind every great fortune there is a crime," wrote Honore de Balzac, and Swiss bankers seem to be concluding that the French novelist was right. Less than one month after freezing the bank accounts of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Switzerland last week took similar action against Haiti's deposed dictator, Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier...
Suspicion immediately fell upon members of the Irish Republican Army, which has staged numerous similar kidnapings. The somewhat amateurish nature of the crime, however, could suggest the work of common criminals. By week's end no word had been heard from the abductors...