Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposite school's holy symbols. In 1962, the Harvard Band left Handsome Dan alone and marched through the streets of New Haven at 3:00 a.m. waking up students and town residents. In doing so, the band broke a city regulation and all its members ended up in jail...
Some needed money for other reasons. One man asked for donations to help bail his brother out of jail--a cause to which many of the concertgoers seemed sympathetic as they stopped to give him spare cash...
...holy man, it was a world of trouble. There, in a third-floor medical cell of the Mecklenburg County jail in Charlotte, N.C., sat Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh last week, facing 35 counts of conspiring to violate immigration laws. Back home in Rajneeshpuram, Ore., where he ran a 1,300-member commune that espouses free love and the good life, the Bhagwan (Revered One) was accustomed to more deferential treatment, not to mention a more elegant life- style that offered, among other amenities, no fewer than 90 Rolls-Royces...
...Pastors and congregation members who have sheltered refugees within their churches maintain that when these Central American immigrants are deported to their native countries, they are often punished severely. Says Jim Corbett, a Quaker and Sanctuary co-founder, who is among those on trial in Tucson: "We are facing jail, but they are the ones facing torture, murder and violation of their human rights...
SENTENCED. Sean Penn, 25, actor (The Falcon and the Snowman) and newlywed husband of trash-flash Rock Singer Madonna; to a $100 fine and a suspended 180-day jail term, after he pleaded no contest to charges of assaulting a reporter and a photographer who were stalking the couple last June; in Nashville...