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...debate over the death penalty reached its peak in Massachusetts this week, concern for an issue of almost equal significance in the category of "cruel and unusual punishment" has been sorely lacking. That issue is the resurgence of support for the chain gang and other similarly inhumane and archaic methods of punishment...
After Aaron was attacked by a gang in the school parking lot, the Bacons decided to take action. Sally, an artist and real estate agent, remembered hearing about a child who had had a good experience at a wilderness-therapy camp, North Star Expeditions, Inc. The Bacons talked with North Star's owners about the 63-day survival course in the south Utah desert. The program, the Bacons decided, could be just the thing to help their son get back on track. "I pictured Aaron sitting around campfires, being nurtured by nature," Sally Bacon explained to the Los Angeles Times...
...movies and buying records are in their teens, 20s and early 30s. The optimism of Forrest Gump rang false for a lot of us. The Lion King offered moments of uplift that faded when the lights came up. But hip-hop songs such as KRS-One's Build & Destroy, Gang Starr's Just to Get a Rep and Tupac Shakur's Holler If Ya Hear Me sound fierce and true, reflecting in mood and content the real world around me and many hundreds of thousands of fans...
...brawl erupted at the D.U. final club between a football recruit and club members....The subsequent hush-up suggests that College officials prefer minimizing publicity to exacting appropriate punishments from blameworthy students....This sort of gang assault should be prosecuted as a serious crime....We recommend two courses of action for the University: 1) a careful examination of the recruiting program, since it is clear that football team members can no longer take care of their own and 2) an end to the persistent coddling of students who commit serious crimes...
Software, guns and money? While software piracy is nothing new, the people doing the pirating are. During the past 18 months, a notorious 300-year-old Hong Kong-based gang known as the Wah Ching has extended its reach beyond its usual lines of business -- murder, extortion, narcotics and gambling -- into the hugely profitable racket of software bootlegging. Police say members of the Wah Ching are using their traditional drug-smuggling routes to ship phony holograms produced in the unregulated factories of China. On April 20, for instance, a Chinese man carrying 29,000 bogus Microsoft holograms was snared...