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...arrival recruits face a "moment of truth" during which they are told to divulge every secret in their past, such as drug use, arrests and even traffic tickets. For years, that debriefing was a bit like a police interrogation, with signs threatening $10,000 fines and jail time for liars. Those signs have been replaced by posters of naval vessels and slides exhorting the kids to embrace "honor, courage, commitment." "When they see all these nice pictures, that gives them a warmer welcome than I got," says Senior Chief Petty Officer Norman Pretlow, a recruit division commander...
...frontier jail where Smith was killed lies southeast of Nauvoo, in Carthage, Ill. I arrived in the middle of a guided tour: 30 or 40 Mormon teens sat on the floor of a second-story room and listened to a husky, white-haired elder narrate the tragedy of Smith's last hours. The elder, using a walking stick to imitate the rifles of the mob, enacted the death scene with stagey gusto, but when the bloody climax came--Smith's disastrous fall from the building--he grew somber. "I personally think that when Joseph fell out that window, the Savior...
...Milan, however, the home of Italian fashion, the company's image could stand a bit of polishing. In May a Milan criminal court sentenced Santo to a 14-month suspended jail term after finding him guilty of bribing police to obtain favorable tax audits for the company. (Leaders of several other couture houses either plea-bargained away tax charges or drew similar penalties.) Santo is appealing the conviction. Moreover, the company continues to be dogged by rumors of Mafia ties, assertions that the family has consistantly denied. Fashion industry rivals wonder in particular who is financing Versace's lavish boutiques...
...concerns demented terrorists who somehow insinuate themselves onto the presidential plane and take the Chief Executive and everyone else aboard hostage. Their offer is lives for a life--specifically that of a genocidal tyrant named General Radek, president of a breakaway Russian republic now being held in a Moscow jail...
...number arrested and the victims' memory of more attackers. "If the girl said there are 12 or 13 of them, where are the other seven?" asks Idella Hollis, 70, grandmother of the Hollis brothers. "I just don't trust them. There are too many black people down in jail for nothin...