Word: jailings
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...compile as exhaustive a record as possible, the two French judges investigating the death of Princess Diana grilled a controversial figure last week: RICHARD TOMLINSON, 35, a former officer of MI6, Britain's foreign-intelligence service. Tomlinson, who was fired by the agency in 1995, spent six months in jail last year for violating Britain's Official Secrets Act by trying to peddle a book critical...
...knew what was on it. It might be semen, they told TIME last week, but even they have never been sure. Before turning the dress over, they declined to test it, and they didn't want to oversell it in negotiations. So once Lewinsky had her get-out-of-jail card, she gave the dress away free...
More common than a blanket defense of exemptions is a query: Isn't there a way to discourage faith-healing-related deaths that is less harsh and more proactive than throwing well-meaning, bereaved parents in jail after the tragic fact? In 1994 Minnesota passed a law requiring parents to alert authorities if their medical boycott endangered their children, leaving it to the state to intervene if necessary. The results are inconclusive: a check on the state's biggest county shows that no one has self-reported. And Michael McConnell, a lawyer who has defended faith-healing parents in neglect...
...compile as exhaustive a record as possible, the two French judges investigating the death of Princess Diana grilled a controversial figure last week: Richard Tomlinson, 35, a former officer of MI6, Britain?s foreign-intelligence service. Tomlinson, who was fired by the agency in 1995, spent six months in jail last year for violating Britain?s Official Secrets Act by trying to peddle a book critical...
...Mitchell and Drew to several years of this. "Punishment won't do anything," says Alan Kazdin, chairman of Yale's psychology department. "Punishment never teaches what to do, [and only] sometimes what not to do." Some very young kids don't even understand they're being punished. "Even in jail, kids want their candy bars, their pillows and pajamas," says lawyer Mones. "They wonder where their cheeseburgers are." It's also crucial to realize these kids will get out someday. "The important thing to do is not to trash these kids," says Carl Bell, "with disregard for their need...