Word: jailings
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...dead donor to a 48-year-old Austrialian businessman who lost his lower arm in a logging accident almost a decade ago. [Ed. Note: In a bizarre twist, it was later reported that the patient actually lost his limb using a circular saw while incarcerated in a New Zealand jail.] Unlike earlier attempts to replace extremities, this operation involved the reconnection of dozens of tendons, nerves and veins. The physicians were competing with surgeons in Louisville, Ky., who went out on a limb in July when they announced that they expected to perform the first such operation by year...
Mandela, the current president of South Africa, who spent 27 years in jail for fighting against the government-imposed apartheid laws that deprived black citizens of their rights, received an honorary doctorate of law from Harvard at a rare ceremony conducted Friday afternoon...
Growing up, I never really understood apartheid. All that I knew was that it was a system that kept white people in power and black people in jail. I knew that it involved disenfranchisement and loss of civil and political rights. I knew that black people were beaten and sometimes killed, but as to any sort of legal or conceptual understanding, I was completely lost...
...months after denying charges in the rape and assault of a Harvard undergraduate woman, Joshua M. Elster '00 Wednesday reversed his earlier pleas and accepted an agreement under which he will serve three years probation but no jail time...
According to O'Reilly, often sex offenders likeElster first plead innocent because they cannotadmit their crimes but later decide to professtheir guilt in return for lighter sentences whenthe prospect of jail looms closer...