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With the gut-wrenching details of heinous sex crimes making national headlines in the past few years, it's easy to see why cities and states would rush to get tougher on offenders even after they get out of prison. The rape and murder of Jessica Lunsford, 9, in March caused Florida to pass a law in May that mandates lifetime monitoring with ankle bracelets for anyone convicted of a sex crime against a minor. The 2003 abduction of North Dakota college student Dru Sjodin helped spur the creation of a national online registry of sex offenders that began rolling...
...That is truly all autobiographical. I can?t cook. I don?t have the right brain for it, somehow. I can?t walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous...
...group opposed to Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and closely aligned with Mubarak's enemy, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. Though Mubarak did not mention the group by name, he seemed to be referring to the Abu Nidal faction, which has previously taken responsibility for a number of particularly heinous terrorist crimes...
...allies is South Korea, which is in the midst of a kiss-and-make-up lovefest with its brothers to the North. A few weeks ago, Hill had a testy exchange with South Korean journalists over why Seoul's blame-America-first media don't write more about the heinous human-rights abuses in the socialist paradise next door. It's a good question. One answer, no doubt, is the distrust of America fomented by Guant?namo...
...involved in the specifics, I became less interested in it as a guiding force in my life." Usually relying on his imagination for material, LaBute did lightly dip into his religion in 1999 for Bash: Latterday Plays, in which three people - who just happen to be Mormon - confess to heinous acts. The performances were well-received, but the church was not amused. "A bit of a falling out" led LaBute to resign his membership last year. The fuss has died down of late, but that doesn't mean LaBute wants you sitting comfortably. Like a giant, mischievous child poking...