Word: jails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hale is the best evidence to date that when it comes to adultery, the Pentagon has two standards--one applies to the powerful and another to the grunts. Flinn found herself facing nearly 10 years in jail for conducting an affair with a married civilian (and lying about it); McKinney faced a court-martial for attempting to coerce six women into sex. Last March a military jury cleared him of 18 of the 19 charges. During the month-long trial, McKinney tried to say that he was the target of overly harsh prosecution and that top officers facing similar charges...
...scenes in 1994 to find employment for Hubbell, one of the President's best pals. He had just resigned as Associate Attorney General amid allegations that he bilked clients and his law firm while a Little Rock partner of Hillary Rodham Clinton's--charges that later landed him in jail for 18 months...
...pretty, so...dangerous to children? She is more complicated, of course, and soon several magazines will render her in brushstrokes instead of spray paint. But even here there is haste: Mirabella and Spin rushed out advance copies of their articles last week to preview salacious disclosures. Letourneau, in jail but hardly incommunicado, expected less trumpeting and more deliberation, since she had cooperated closely with both writers. For their part, the Fualaaus have sold the story and pictures of Vili to a tabloid, the Globe, for more than $20,000. Their decision was understandable--the family has struggled financially...
...child." Such a ridiculous charge, she thought. Why couldn't everyone realize that Vili had come on to her for months? But Dave and his wife Susan were friends from the neighborhood, good people who assured her that Dave had obtained a good deal--a few months in jail, then a treatment program for "sex offenders." Another annoying term, Mary thought. She was still imagining a life with all five of her kids together as a family. She and Steve would divorce, but perhaps she and Vili--a sensitive, dreamy soul who had, to her surprise, become the love...
...jailbreak--out of the gulag of troubled suburban marriage, out of her grownup's work as 37-year-old wife and mother, out of her moral and professional responsibilities, out of the Ozzie-and-Harriet zone altogether--landed her in the Washington Corrections Center for Women. No matter. Jail is freedom to outlaw love...