Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last stand. From here to the grave, or to the homeland." Then he relents a bit. "We have to save the idea before we save Beirut. Beirut is not the capital of our idea." Darwish is 40. He has been a refugee four times and has been thrown in jail. "If the Palestinians find a homeland, they may discover the same dilemma as the Jews. The Jews were great creators in the abstract. Now only their army is great. Israel is the grave of Jewish greatness...
...retinue had not paid their room and board for more than two months. The tab: $1,475,516.34. The hotel called Hollywood police-most of the department once worked part-time for the sheik-who arrested him on a felony fraud charge. Sheik Fassi cooled his royal heels in jail for six hours, waiting for a bail bondsman to put up $1,000. "What is $1,000?" sneered Saud Al Rasheed, a family spokesman, who says the hotel bill will be paid promptly. "One thousand dollars we spend on tips for waiters...
...think we're being treated very well." Argued Stanford Psychologist Richard Thompson: "The report was very fairminded. We are concerned with the long-term harmful effects of marijuana use. But we are also concerned about the possible harm that can be done to kids by throwing them in jail with hardened criminals." In fact, the report had originally gone even further, suggesting that legalization might eventually emerge as the best approach to pot. An N.A.S. review panel and the committee agreed, however, to water down that observation. The only solace for the committee may be that the official potshot...
...nonobscene ones as well. Bluntly put, the legislators wanted to crack down on dirty pictures of children even if the material involved was not "prurient" and "offensive" when judged by community standards. So when Manhattan Bookstore Owner Paul Ferber was sentenced in 1978 to 45 days in jail for selling two nonobscene films, he complained that his First Amendment right to free speech had been violated. Last week, with a unanimity that is rare on today's fractionated Supreme Court, the Justices handed down a landmark decision that encourages sweeping curbs on child pornography...
...being a saint were the least of it. This fierce woman, this muscular Christian, founded and edited the intransigently radical Catholic Worker. She suffered prison zestfully for her conscience, as suffragist and pacifist. At 15 she demonstrated with the farm workers of Cesar Chavez and went to jail for one last time. The old lady's picture in the papers made almost too pat a portrait of a martyr...