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...Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne wears a crimson A as punishment for adultery. In Portland, Ore., Richard Bateman may wear a similar badge of shame when released from jail in two months. At his sentencing in May, Judge Dorothy M. Baker knew that he was unlikely to spend a long time behind bars in the overcrowded prison system, despite his history of molesting young children. So she ordered that for four years after his release, Bateman, 47, must post signs on his home and on both sides of any vehicle he drives that read, in letters at least three inches high...
When a hot breeze of scandal blew away Gary Hart's candidacy, the other contenders felt a chill of apprehension. Would each be asked, as Hart was in his last press conference, whether he had committed adultery? Would evasion stamp a politician with Hester Prynne's scarlet letter...
...front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, a Gulliver surrounded by political Lilliputians. But then came the most harrowing public ordeal ever endured by a modern presidential contender: a media trial that made George Romney's "brainwashing" and Edmund Muskie's public tears seem almost laughable in comparison. Like Hester Prynne, Hart stood in the public dock accused of adultery...
...Nathaniel Hawthorne's fictional Massachusetts, Hester Prynne wore the scarlet A to betoken her adultery. In 17th century New Hampshire, however, the transgression brought "two sets of 40 lashes" and the letters AD worn on upper garments. Today, adultery in the Granite State can bring a $1,000 fine or up to a year in prison. Soon it may not be a crime at all. The state house has passed a measure that would decriminalize adultery. If the senate follows suit, Republican Governor John Sununu is expected to sign the bill into...
...Hester says that he has made enemies in the neighborhood because of the patrol's vigilance and has even had rocks thrown into his car. "But I have two daughters," he says, "and I feel that I'm making my neighborhood safe for my family...