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Perhaps the next time members of Congress assemble to decide how much money to set aside for Alzheimer's research, they should be asked to listen to silence differently, as if it were a jail sentence. Maybe then they would look into their hearts and know that if stopping a disease that is stalking so many is not a top priority, we have lost our collective heart as a nation...
...when the fbi obtained and translated wiretaps that the Italians recorded during the Olympics. Imagine their surprise at hearing Tokhtakhounov spell out his Olympic machinations. The U.S. issued a complaint charging him with two counts of conspiracy to commit sports bribery, and Italy slapped him into a Venice jail to await extradition. "He is astonished at the accusations," said his Italian lawyer Luca Saldarelli. "He is not interested in ice skating...
...kind of accident that happens every day when people drink, drive too fast or both," says Patrice Manzoni, who notes that the man who killed his uncle had a history of drunk driving. "All the guy got was a suspended jail sentence and license rescinded for three years. What do you think he learned from that...
...even though I'm the one who's handicapped for life," says Marcelle Berthoud, 61, who has spent three years in hospitals and rehab centers since a drunk driver hit her car head on. The driver - who failed to appear at his trial - saw his initial six-month suspended jail sentence lowered to three on appeal, and the 15-month driving prohibition lifted completely. "Judges figure the driver's guilty conscience is punishment enough, and that the damage to victims is already done," says Berthoud. "Just who is the law protecting...
...Jerry Lee wasn't the only rock star to endure or sow tragedy. Elvis's twin brother died at birth; Berry was convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old (not his wife) and served three years in jail; Orbison married the 15-year-old Claudette Frady, who died 11 years later in a motorcycle crash. But Jerry Lee had such a run of misfortune that the frequency and enormity of the misfortunes begin to seem ... unseemly...