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LAW: A federal judge throws the book at Jim Bakker
"I'm deeply sorry for the people who have been hurt," Bakker contritely told U.S. District Judge Robert Potter just before the sentencing. "I have sinned. I have made mistakes. But never in my life did I intend to defraud anyone." That last-ditch bid for leniency made little impression...
In a country where convicted murderers are sentenced to an average of 20 years, Bakker's punishment seemed excessive and arbitrary to many people. "Before some judges, Bakker might have gotten off with little more than probation," said a federal judge, who declined to be identified.
Hunting outfitters and stockmen scuff their cowboy boots in the dirt, unconvinced, as Askins talks. Some of them like to draw a line between Eastern ecobabblers, who puff wolves as gallant symbols of wildness, and true Westerners, who know them as cruel and cowardly and who can be relied on...
U.S. Representative Wayne Owens, a Utah Democrat, has 76 cosponsors for a bill calling for wolf reintroduction, but its chances are dodgy unless lawmakers from the Yellowstone states change their minds. This may happen; polls show that voters favor the idea. Wyoming Republican Senator Alan Simpson, once an antiwolf diehard...