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James W. Lewis, 36, sought on charges of extortion and unlawful flight in the case, was picked up at the mid-Manhattan branch of the New York City Public Library. Librarian Donald Alexis spotted the suspect when the bespectacled Lewis, wearing blue jeans, walked by the librarian's fourth...
Prisons effect punishment, of course. But the punishment provided by the roughly 800 U.S. prisons ranges from the purgatorial to the hellish. In a well-designed, progressive place like Michigan's Huron Valley Men's Facility, a five-year term is with luck just that: five years of life terribly...
The history of the pro-ERA movement is replete with excesses that demonstrate contempt for the democratic process. Consider a precedent-setting time extension for ratification, boycotts, hunger strikes, bags of animal blood, to name a few. And now we hear of raising millions to "get strong and get even...
The current caper revives SPECTRE, the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, which Bond supposedly felled years ago, along with its malevolent leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. SPECTRE is determined this time around to gain control of outer space. Its machinations include a wave of hijackings for huge ransoms...
As Kremlinologists mulled over the implication of the pecking order, Moscow was abuzz with rumors that contenders for Brezhnev's job, weary of waiting for their leader's demise, were attempting to force his resignation by impugning members of his family. These stories were fueled by a series...