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...MATHEWSON of the New York Giants standards on the mound, pitching for a baseball team composed of stars who shone when that appellation still meant something. They are the aptly named Dead Knights, facing Ann Arbor's South Avenue Rovers. It is 1942, and the Rovers are home on furlough from all corners of the war. If they win, they will live to tell about it. If the Knights win, their coach, Death, will take the Rovers...
...California legislators, for example, passed a law permitting inmates to earn reductions of up to 50% in their sentences by participating in work or study programs. That kind of early release, of course, is just parole by another name. So are Connecticut's "supervised home time" and "reentry furlough" programs, which amend the state's fixed-time laws by allowing the release of inmates as much as six months early at the discretion of officials. Such emerging hybrids may lead to improvements. But criminal justice practitioners do not expect miracles. Neither should anyone else. -By Michael S. Serrill...
Last December, school officials tried to save money by placing all university employees on a two-and-one-half-day payless furlough. Weeks later, it became apparent that more drastic action was needed. On February 6, the board of trustees, staring at a calculated $30-million deficit, voted to declare Michigan State University in a "state of financial crisis...
...chief of staff was paroled in time for Christmas. "This is generally considered a special time of the year to rejoice, and it sure is for me," said Haldeman. Two days later, John Mitchell, the last of the Watergate gang still behind bars, was permitted a five-day Christmas furlough...
...only real evidence of professionalism comes from Cinematographer Mike Chapman (Taxi Driver), who has shot New York's mean streets in his usual lucid way. The cast varies from bad to worse. Heroine Tisa Farrow speaks as if she were a spaced-out extra on furlough from Blow-Up. Jim Brown, the subject of a 1971 Toback book, is on hand only to act out the script's juvenile racial-sexual fantasies. As the hero, a schizo prone to gesturing with his mouth while banging at the keyboard, Keitel gives the first terrible performance of his career...