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...Tsotsi,”? communicates this vast power of ?human heart and emotion? through a hardened man’s single experience with an innocent child. During the film’s hour-and-a-half run, the influence of one baby connects social classes, stops gang violence, and facilitates the discovery of love for the adults around him. Within this internationally acclaimed South African film, Hood brilliantly finds a sympathetic, yet not syrupy sweet, way to embrace life’s tragedies and also showcase its victories. Street-hooligan-turned-gang-leader Tsotsi, played by Presley Chweneyagae...
...have more impact on crime rates as a district attorney than as a legislator. “Where the rubber hits the road in criminal justice is in the DA’s office,” he said. In recent years, Barrios co-drafted legislation aimed at reducing gang-related violence. He also authored a bill banning assault weapons to replace the one that expired in Sept. 2004. Barrios, who has been state senator since 2003, also emphasized the need for reforms in domestic violence prosecution and prevention. He said that halfway houses for domestic offenders can serve...
...academia and ministry—two realms which are often at odds with one another.“MDiv students have to makes sense out of studying Greek at 10 in the morning and going to the Boston Medical Center and seeing what that has to do with a gang shooting victim in the ER,” Dean Rose says, explaining that the MDiv curriculum can sometimes seem contradictory.Rose’s colleague, Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies Stephanie A. Paulsell, has spent her career on both sides of the fence...
...crime, controls the witnesses, controls the evidence," says Miami attorney James Walker, who represented Kelly. "It's all being filtered through the company's risk-management department." Court documents seen by TIME back up that contention. In one case, a passenger who was examined on board for evidence of gang rape sued the cruise line after ship security, by allowing housekeeping to repeatedly steam-clean the carpet, failed to preserve the alleged crime scene. In another case, a passenger accused of sexual assault testified that a ship security officer coached him to state that "no sex was performed by anyone...
...SENTENCED. PAUL FRANCIS GADD, 61, a.k.a. Gary Glitter, flamboyant British rocker famous for 1970s hits such as I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am!), who was convicted of molesting two underage Vietnamese girls, both 11 at the time; to the minimum sentence of three years in prison; in Vung Tau, Vietnam. Gadd, who has maintained his innocence, was convicted in 1999 of possessing child pornography in Britain and in 2002 was expelled from Cambodia after he came under suspicion of pedophilia. He will be eligible for parole as soon as November...